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Ohio city links: http://www.50states.com/city/ohio.htm
Ohio Historical Society: http://www.ohiohistory.org/ Ohio is the only state to have a flag shaped
like a pennant.
(SFEC, 4/25/99, Z1 p.8)
The state motto is "With God, all things are possible." In
2001 a US court of Appeals ruled that the motto is constitutionally
acceptable.
(SFC, 3/17/01, p.A3) 450Mil BC Cincinnati at this time was
covered by a sea, 100 to 200 feet deep. Primitive shellfish lived in
it. But no fish. In 2011 a mysterious 150-pound fossil, more than 6
feet long and 3 feet wide, was recovered in northern Kentucky and
dated to about this time.
(AP, 4/25/12)

8000BC Mastodons roamed over Ohio. In 1887 Newton
S. Conway discovered the skeleton of a mastodon on his farm on the
Clark-Champaign County line. It became known as the Conway Mastodon.
(SSFC, 1/9/11, p.A10)(http://tinyurl.com/2ecv34t)

1749 Nov 2, The English Ohio
Trade Company formed its 1st trade post.
(MC, 11/2/01)

1753 Oct, Robert Dinwiddie,
governor of Virginia, called a meeting to discuss the eviction of
British settlers from homesteads west of the Appalachian Mountains
by French soldiers from Canada. Major George Washington volunteered
to deliver a letter of trespass to French authorities in the Ohio
Valley.
(ON, 9/05, p.1)

1753 Dec 12, George Washington,
the adjutant of Virginia, delivered an ultimatum to the French
forces at Fort Le Boeuf, south of Lake Erie, reiterating Britain’s
claim to the entire Ohio river valley.
(HN, 12/12/98)

1753 Dec 14, French Captain
Jacques Le Gardeur rejected the pretensions of the English to
ownership of the Ohio Valley, but promised to forward Virginia Gov.
Dinwiddie’s letter of trespass to his superiors in Canada.
(ON, 9/05, p.2)

1754 Jan 6, Major George
Washington, while returning to Virginia, encountered a party of
English settlers and militiamen at Will’s Creek sent by Gov.
Dinwiddie to establish a fort and trading post at the Forks of the
Ohio.
(ON, 9/05, p.2)

1754 Apr 2, A small
expeditionary force of 159 men under Lt. Col. George Washington
arrived at Will’s Creek and learned that the French had taken over
the new Fort Prince George at the Forks of the Ohio from British
soldiers and frontiersmen and renamed it Fort Duquesne.
(ON, 9/05, p.2)

1763 May 7, Indian chief
Pontiac began his attack on a British fort in present-day Detroit,
Michigan. Ottawa Chief Pontiac led an uprising in the wild, distant
lands that later became Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
(HN, 7/24/98)(HN, 5/7/99)

1768 Nov 5, William Johnson,
the northern Indian Commissioner, signed a treaty with the Iroquois
Indians to acquire much of the land between the Tennessee and Ohio
rivers for future settlement.
(HN, 11/5/98)

1774 Sep 26, John Chapman
(d.1845), later known as Johnny Appleseed, was born in
Massachusetts. A pioneer agriculturalist of early America,
Chapman began his trek in 1797, collecting apple seedlings from
western Pennsylvania and establishing apple nurseries around the
early American frontier. Chapman was a Swedenborgian missionary, a
land speculator, a heavy drinker and an eccentric dresser (he hated
shoes and seldom wore them. He planted orchards across western
Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana from seed.
(www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=94)(T&L, 10/1980,
p.42)(HNQ, 9/4/01)(ON, 4/09, p.10)

1777 George Washington led a
campaign against the British and their Iroquois allies in
Pennsylvania, New York, and the Ohio country. These included the Six
Nations Indians: Mohawk, Cayuga, Onondaga, Seneca, Oneida, and
Tuscarora. In 2005 Glenn F. Williams published “The Year of the
Hangman: George Washington’s Campaign Against the Iroquois.
(WSJ, 7/26/05, p.D8)

1782 Mar 8, The Gnadenhutten
massacre took place as some 90 Christian Delaware Indians were slain
by militiamen in Ohio in retaliation for raids carried out by other
Indians.
(AP, 3/8/98)(AH, 4/07, p.14)

1790 May 26, Territory South of
River Ohio was created by Congress.
(AP, 5/26/98)

1794 Aug 20, American General
"Mad Anthony" Wayne defeated the Ohio Indians at the Battle of
Fallen Timbers in the Northwest territory, ending Indian resistance
in the area.
(HN, 8/20/98)

1796 Jul 22, Cleveland, Ohio,
was founded by Gen. Moses Cleaveland. Moses Cleaveland came to where
the city of Cleveland now sits and surveyed the land. After three
months he returned to Connecticut. The city bears his name.
(SFC, 6/2/96, T10)(AP, 7/22/97)

1803 Feb 19, Congress voted to
accept Ohio's borders and constitution. However, Congress did not
get around to formally ratifying Ohio statehood until 1953.
(AP, 2/19/98)

1806 Nov 16, Moses Cleaveland
(52), the land surveyor for whom the city of Cleveland is named,
died in Canterbury, Conn.
(AP, 11/16/06)

1808 Jun 1, The first US
land-grant university was founded-Ohio Univ., Athens, Ohio.
(DT internet 6/1/97)

1814 Jul 22, Five Indian tribes
in Ohio made peace with the United States and declared war on
Britain.
(HN, 7/22/98)

1814 Dec 19, Edwin McMasters
Stanton, US Secretary of War (1861-65), was born in Ohio.
(MC, 12/19/01)

1815 Oct 29, Daniel Decatur
Emmett, the composer of "Dixie," which became the unofficial
national anthem of the Confederacy during the American Civil War,
was born in Mount Vernon, Ohio. Organizer of one of the first
minstrel shows, "Dixie" was written in 1859 as a concluding number,
or "walk-around," for a minstrel show. Emmett died on June 28, 1904.
(HNQ, 3/21/99)

1818 The Libbey Glass Co. of
Toledo, Ohio, was founded as the New England Glass Company by Edward
Drummond Libbey. Libbey collected glass "through the ages" in a
museum for the inspiration his workers. In 1999 it was a division of
Owens-Illinois.
(SFC, 3/31/99, Z1 p.6)(WSJ, 10/19/01, p.W15)

1822 Apr 27, Ulysses S. Grant
(d.1885), general and 18th U.S. president (1869-1877), was born in
Point Pleasant [Hiram], Ohio.
(AP, 4/27/97)(HN, 4/27/02)

1822 Oct 4, Rutherford B.
Hayes, the 19th president (R) of the United States, was born in
Delaware, Ohio. Hayes was a major-general in the Civil War, then an
Ohio congressman, then succeeded Grant as president (1877-81). Hayes
won the Electoral College by a margin of one vote after his opponent
won the popular vote in an election so fraught with charges of vote
fraud that there were even fears of a coup. Hayes refused to
seek a second term.
(AP, 10/4/97)(HN, 10/4/98)(MC, 10/3/01)

1823 John Rankin, Presbyterian
minister, moved to Ripley, Ohio, and soon established the Ripley
Line of the underground railroad. In 2003 Ann Hagedorn authored
"Beyond the River: The Untold Story of the Heroes of the Underground
Railroad." In 2005 Fergus M. Bordewich authored “Bound for Canaan,"
a look at the people involved in the UR operations.
(WSJ, 1/30/03, p.D8)(WSJ, 3/29/05, p.D6)

1827 Feb 28, The first U.S.
railroad chartered to carry passengers and freight, the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Co., was incorporated.
(AP, 2/28/98)

1827 Aug 10, There were race
riots in Cincinnati and some 1,000 blacks left for Canada.
(MC, 8/10/02)

1830 Nicholas Longworth planted
a Catawba grape vineyard near Cincinnati. He was later hailed as the
1st to successfully raise vinifera grapes in the US. [see Kentucky
1799]
(WSJ, 11/24/00, p.W8)

1831 Nov 19, James A. Garfield
(d.1881) the 20th Pres. of the US, was born in Orange Township,
Ohio.
(WUD, 1994, p.584)(AP, 11/19/08)

1831 The Ohio city of
Cincinnati became known as "Pork polis". Strategically located on
the banks of the Ohio River, Cincinnati gained the nickname because
it was then America‘s greatest meat packing center.
(HNQ, 3/16/00)

1833 Aug 20, Benjamin Harrison,
the 23rd president of the United States (1889-1893) and grandson of
President William Henry Harrison, was born in North Bend, Ohio.
(HN 8/20/97)(AP, 8/20/99)(MC, 8/20/02)

1833 Dec 3, Oberlin College in
Ohio, the first truly coeducational school of higher learning in the
United States, opened its doors.
(AP, 12/3/98)

1835 Ohio and Michigan engaged
in “The Toledo War" (1835–1836), also known as the Ohio-Michigan
War, a bloodless boundary dispute that was settled in 1836.
(WSJ, 5/31/08,
p.W9)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toledo_War)

1837 The Procter & Gamble
Company was formed in Cincinnati, Ohio. William Procter and James A.
Gamble built a business manufacturing soap and candles from the
tallow produced by the city’s thriving meat packing industry. In
2004 Davis Dyer, Frederick Dalzell and Rowena Olegario authored
“Rising Tide," a history of Procter and Gamble.
(WSJ, 1/15/97, p.A12)(WSJ, 7/23/04, p.W12)(Econ,
8/11/07, p.61)

1838 Sep 23, Victoria Chaflin
Woodhull (d.1927), American presidential candidate (1872), was born
into a family of charlatans in Ohio. Woodhull, a militant
suffragist, advocated free love and was Wall Street's first female
broker after attracting Cornelius Vanderbilt. She was the first
woman to address Congress. Her story is documented in “The Woman Who
Ran for President: The Many Lives of Victoria Woodhull" by Lois
Beachy Underhill. In 1998 Mary Gabriel published "Notorious
Victoria: The Life of Victoria Woodhull, Uncensored. In 1998 Barbara
Goldsmith published "Other Powers--The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism
and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull."
(WSJ, 7/25/95, p.A-10)(SFEC, 2/22/98, BR
p.5)(SFEC, 3/8/98, Par p.14)(HNPD, 4/28/00)

1838 Amid rising debts and
rumors of polygamy, the Mormons moved from Ohio to Far West, Mo.,
where they clashed violently with other settlers. [see 1839]
(SFC, 4/9/96, A-7)

1838 The Buckeye Brewing Co. of
Toledo, Ohio, began operations. Green Seal Select Beer was one of
their early brands. The company continued until 1972.
(SFC, 2/13/08, p.G8)

1841-1921 Of the 11 U.S. presidents serving
between 1841 and 1921, seven of them were born in Ohio. The
presidents and their places of birth were: Ulysses S. Grant, Point
Pleasant; Rutherford B. Hayes, Delaware; James A. Garfield, Orange;
Benjamin Harrison, North Bend; William McKinley, Niles; William H.
Taft, Cincinnati; Warren G. Harding, Morrow County. These were the
only Ohio-born presidents. Three of them, Garfield, McKinley and
Harding died in office. Four of the seven presidents hailing from
Ohio died while in office. They were William Henry Harrison, the 9th
president, who died one month after his inauguration in 1841; the
20th president, James Garfield, who was assassinated in 1881;
William McKinley, the 25th president, who was assassinated in 1901;
and Warren G. Harding, who died suddenly in 1923.
(HNQ, 5/9/98)(HNQ, 6/7/99)

1843 Jan 29, The 25th president
of the United States, William McKinley, was born in Niles, Ohio.
McKinley was the last Civil War veteran to serve as President of the
United States. He had served with the 23rd Regiment, Ohio
Volunteers, eventually rising to the rank of brevet major. He saw
action at South Mountain, Antietam, Winchester and Cedar Creek. For
a time he served on Rutherford B. Hayes' staff. McKinley was elected
the 25th president in 1896. He led the country in the
Spanish-American War. He died in Buffalo, New York, on September 14,
1901, after being shot by an anarchist assassin on September 6.
(AP, 1/29/98)(HNQ, 11/13/98)

1843 Jun 1, It snowed in
Buffalo and Rochester N.Y., and also in Cleveland Ohio.
(DT internet 6/1/97)

1847 Feb 11, American inventor
Thomas Alva Edison was born in Milan, Ohio. He was the inventor of
the first electric light bulb and pioneer of the motion picture
industry. He also Invented at least 1,300 other items.
(HN, 2/11/97)(AP, 2/11/97)

1847 Dec 16, Mary Catherwood
(d.1901), American novelist, was born in Luray, Ohio. "Next to the
slanderer, we detest the bearer of the slander to our ears."
(http://ntweb1.cpl.org/ocb/index.php?q=node/11&id=149)(AP,
6/9/97)

1847-1852 Durfee’s Knickerbocker root beer was
bottled in Rochester, New York, during this period. Durfee used a
12-sided bottle in Ohio and New York. In 2008 the bottles were
valued at about $125.
(SFC, 3/26/08, p.G3)

1848 Jul 27, In Ohio the
foundation stone for the Burnet House hotel was laid in Cincinnati.
Before 1802 the site was occupied by an Indian mound. From 1802-1825
it was occupied by the estate of Judge Jacob Burnet (1770-1853).
Jacob’s half-brother David G. Burnet was the first president of the
Republic of Texas.
(http://tinyurl.com/kr55wul)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Burnet)

1848 The W.C. Davis Co. was
founded in Cincinnati, Ohio, to manufacture cast-iron stoves and
cookware. In 1880 the factory was enlarged and the name was changed
to Favorite Stove Works. A new owner, William King Boal, moved the
firm to Piqua in 1889. In 1934 the company went out of business and
sold the Favorite cookware line to Chicago Hardware Foundry Co.
(SFC, 1/10/07, p.G3)

c1850 Jan 30, Charles
Steingraff (50), a bachelor farmhand, was hanged in Ohio for the
murder of a deaf and blind, 12-year-old girl. An estimated 25,000
spectators watched the execution.
(ON, 10/02, p.3)

1850 Apr, The side-wheel
steamship General Anthony Wayne sank in 50 feet of water in
lake Erie about eight miles north of Vermilion, Ohio. 38 of the 93
passengers and crew on board died. The wreckage was discovered in
2007.
(AP, 6/21/07)

1850 Cincinnati, the largest
meat-packing center in the United States at that time, earned the
name Porkopolis.
(HNQ, 10/15/00)

1850s In Cincinnati
abolitionist Nicholas Longworth hired Robert Scott Duncanson to
paint 8 large murals in his home. The murals were covered by
wallpaper by 1869 and not uncovered until 1931. The house and a
large art collection were given to the city by Charles and Anna Taft
around 1928.
(WSJ, 8/8/00, p.A20)

1851 May 28, Freed slave and
abolitionist Sojourner Truth attended a national women's convention
in Akron, Ohio, where the female delegates were heckled by men in
the audience who claimed that men were superior to women. Frances
Gage, president of the convention, recorded Sojourner Truth's words
that day. "Dat man ober dar say dat women needs to be helped into
carriages and lifted ober ditches, and to hab de best place
everywhar. Nobody eber helps me into carriages, or ober mud-puddles,
or gibs me any best place! And ain't I a woman! Look at me! Look at
my arm! I have ploughed, and planted and gathered into barns, and no
man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat
as much as a man--when I could get it--and bear de lash as well! And
ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen chilern, and seen 'em mos'
all sold into slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief,
none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?" Sojourner Truth's
words, according to Gage, "turned the sneers and jeers of an excited
crowd into notes of respect and admiration."
(SFC, 3/30/97, Z1 p.6)(HN, 7/13/99)(MC, 5/28/02)

1851 Simon Lazarus, a
rabbinical scholar from Germany, opened a dry-goods store in
Columbus, Ohio. The operation grew to become F&R Lazarus, after
the names of his sons, who in 1929 created the Federated Dept. Store
chain. The downtown Columbus store closed in 2004.
(WSJ, 5/19/07,
p.A6)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Lazarus)

1852 Mar 29, Ohio made it
illegal for children under 18 and women to work more than 10 hours a
day.
(MC, 3/29/02)

1852 Aug 20, The steamer
"Atlantic" collided on Lake Erie with the fishing boat Ogdensburg,
and sank. An estimated 150-250 people were drowned.
(MC, 8/20/02)(Internet)

1853 Apr 1, Cincinnati, Ohio,
established a fire department made up of paid city employees.
(AP, 4/1/07)

1853 Isaac Knowles founded a
pottery firm in East Liverpool, Ohio. In 1870 the name was changed
to Knowles, Taylor and Knowles to reflect expanded ownership.
(SFC, 3/26/08, p.G3)

1854 Dr. George W. L. Bickley,
a Virginian who had moved to Ohio, organized the first "castle," or
local branch, of the Knights of the Golden Circle in Cincinnati and
soon took the order to the South, where it was enthusiastically
received. Its principal object was to provide a force to colonize
the northern part of Mexico and thus extend proslavery interests,
and the Knights became especially active in Texas. The Knights of
the Golden Circle was a secret society organized in the 1850s in the
American Midwest that promoted the extension of slavery. During the
American Civil War the society sympathized with the Confederacy,
encouraged desertion in the Union Army, resisted enlistment and
interfered with the draft. At its peak there were some 200,000
members. It changed its name to the Order of American Knights in
1863 and in 1864 to the Sons of Liberty. Northern authorities
arrested many members in 1864 and sentenced to death three of its
leaders. The death sentences were later suspended, the leaders
ordered released in 1866 by the Supreme Court.
http://www.dev.infoplease.com/ce5/CE028675.html
(HNQ, 8/2/99)

1857 Aug 24, The New York
branch of the Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Co. failed, sparking the
Panic of 1857. The sharp but short 1857-58 financial crash in the US
was touched off by the failure of the New York branch of the Ohio
Life Insurance and Trust Company. Over speculation in real estate
and railroad securities fed the panic. Financial crashes spread to
Liverpool, Glasgow, Paris, Hamburg, Copenhagen and Vienna.
(AP, 8/24/07)(WSJ, 9/28/95c, p.A-18)(Econ,
4/12/14, p.51)

1857 Sep 15, William Howard
Taft, 26th president of the United States and as chief justice, was
born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is most remembered for his "dollar
diplomacy."
(AP, 9/15/97)(HN, 9/15/99)

1859 A law banning the carrying
of concealed weapons was passed in Ohio.
(http://tinyurl.com/d337x96)
1859 Gustave Stomps
(1827-1890), a German immigrant, founded a furniture company in
Dayton, Ohio. The Stomps Burkhardt Co. of Dayton operated from 1890
to 1928.
(SFC, 9/19/07, p.G6)

1860 Aug 13, Annie Oakley
(d.1926), sharp-shooter and entertainer, was born in Darke County,
Ohio, as Phoebe Anne Oakley Mozee (Mosey). She became a markswoman
and toured with the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show.
(WUD, 1994, p.992)(SFEC, 8/3/97, Z1 p.2)(HN,
8/14/98)

1860-1865 The 23d Ohio, a volunteer regiment
during the American Civil War, included two future presidents and an
army commander. The volunteer citizen army that fought the Civil War
for the North was one of the most remarkable military assemblages in
history. The 23d Ohio contained among its commanding and ranking
officers more names that would become famous than any other regiment
in the Northern armies.
(HNQ, 4/9/01)

1861 Apr 20, Thaddeus Lowe
landed in South Carolina only to be surrounded by a group of
incredulous Carolinians who believed he was a spy. Lowe managed to
persuade the crowd that his 500-mile trip from Cincinnati, Ohio, was
merely an innocent aerial journey to test his strange craft. He
later tried to convince the Union to use his skill as a balloonist.
(HNQ, 4/5/01)(ON, 2/05, p.7)

1862 Mar 24, Abolitionist
Wendell Phillips spoke to a crowd about emancipation in Cincinnati,
Ohio and was pelted by eggs.
(HN, 3/24/00)

1862 Sep 17, Sgt. William
McKinley and a single volunteer drove a wagon of hot coffee and warm
food through Confederate fire at Antietam to the men of the 23rd
Ohio regiment. Col. Rutherford B. Hayes promoted him to lieutenant
for his bravery and initiative.
(WSJ, 12/12/03, p.W9)

1862-1906 Bitters bottles were manufactured in
Tiffin, Ohio and Omaha, Neb. to hold "American Life Bitters," an
alcoholic concoction of herbs and gin that was marketed as medicine.
(SFC, 6/3/98, Z1 p.6)

1863 Jul 26, In the Battle of
Salineville, Ohio, John Hunt Morgan and 364 troops surrendered.
Confederate Brigadier General John Hunt Morgan and his cavalrymen
were captured during their daring raid into Ohio. Conditions for
Confederate soldiers housed in the Ohio State Penitentiary in
Columbus improved after General Morgan sent a written complaint to
the Buckeye State’s governor, David Todd. The Confederates were
placed in the dark, dank stone prison, where they were subject to
harsh punishment and forced to live on bread and water. Todd visited
the prison after receiving Morgan’s letter, and soon afterward
reforms were instituted to improve living conditions. Morgan did not
stay to savor the improvements, though. In November 1863, he and six
other Confederate officers escaped.
(HNQ, 9/20/01)(MC, 7/26/02)

1863 Dec 9, Major General John
G. Foster replaced Major General Ambrose E. Burnside as Commander of
the Department of Ohio.
(HN, 12/9/98)

1865 Nov 2, Warren Gamaliel
Harding, the 29th president of the United States (1921-29), was born
near Corsica, Ohio. Harding was owner and publisher of the Marion
Star.
(SFEC, 1/12/97, zone 3 p.4)(AP,
11/2/97)(HNQ, 10/21/98)

1866 Feb 21, Lucy B. Hobbs
became the first woman to graduate from a dental school, the Ohio
College of Dental Surgery in Cincinnati.
(AP, 2/21/98)

1867 Denton True Young (Cy
Young, d.1955), baseball pitching star, was born near Gilmore, Ohio.
Cy was short for cyclone.
(AH, 10/01, p.20)

1868 May 31, The 1st Memorial
Day parade was held in Ironton, Ohio.
(MC, 5/31/02)
1868 May 30, Memorial Day began
when two women placed flowers on both Confederate and Union graves.
Memorial Day, which began in 1868 as Decoration Day, was set aside
to remember those who have died in the service of their country.
Celebrated on May 30 for the first 100 years, Memorial Day was
officially changed to the last Monday in May in 1968.
(HN, 5/30/98)(HNPD, 5/31/99)

1868 The "Ohio Idea,"
promulgated by Ohio congressman George Pendleton, called for payment
of the national debt with greenbacks. This position was
adopted by the Democrats at their 1868 convention. The "Ohio Idea"
was in opposition to the "hard money" proponents who called for
payments in gold. The 1869 Public Credit Act officially repudiated
the "Ohio Idea" with its provision for the payment of government
obligations in gold.
(HNQ, 5/14/99)

1869 Sep 22, The Cincinnati Red
Stockings, the first professional baseball team, arrived in San
Francisco after a rollicking, barnstorming tour of the West.
(HN, 9/22/98)

1870 Jan 10, John D.
Rockefeller (1839-1937) and his brother William incorporated the
Standard Oil Company of Ohio. The original Standard Oil Company,
founded by John D. Rockefeller and three partners in 1870, was
incorporated in the state of Ohio.
(WSJ, 7/15/97, p.A16)(AP, 1/10/98)(HN,
1/10/99)(HNQ, 1/23/00)

1870 The pottery firm Knowles,
Taylor and Knowles began operations in East Liverpool, Ohio, and
continued to 1931. They were best known for their Lotus Ware
(1891-1898).
(SFC, 3/14/07, p.G2)

1870s Merman Bros., a producer
of tables in reproduction style, was founded in Ottoville, Ohio. It
later moved to Celina, Ohio, and closed in 1995.
(SFC, 7/27/05, p.G2)

1872 Jun 27, Paul Laurence
Dunbar, African-American poet and writer, was born in Dayton, Ohio.
His poems include "Oak and Ivory" and "Majors and Minors."
(HN, 6/27/99)(SC, 6/27/02)

1872 The Ransom and Randolph
Co. was founded in Ohio for the manufacture of supplies to dentists,
doctors and barbers.
(SFC, 8/24/05, p.G6)

1874 Jan 29, John David
Rockefeller Jr (d.1960), philanthropist, was born in Cleveland,
Ohio.
(MC, 1/29/02)

1874 Cleveland set up the first
ordinary electric street trolley.
(SFC, 7/19/97, p.E4)

1876 Apr 25, The Chicago White
Stockings (later Chicago Cubs) beat Louisville 4-0 (1st NL shutout)
in the 1st NL game. Albert G. Spalding (1850-1915), former pitcher
for the Boston Red Stocking, had joined the Chicago White Stockings
after helping form the new National League. His move effectively
ended the National Association, baseball’s first professional
league. Spalding managed the White Stockings from 1876-1877 and
continued as a player to 1878.
(http://tinyurl.com/yb7u9ou)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Spalding)

1876 Sep 13, Sherwood Anderson
(d.1941), author, poet and publisher (Winesburg), was born in
Winesburg, Ohio. "Sometimes I think we Americans are the loneliest
people in the world. To be sure, we hunger for the power of
affection, the self-acceptance that gives life. It is the oldest and
strongest hunger in the world. But hungering is not enough."
(AP, 9/28/00)(MC, 9/13/01)

1876 Dec 29, In the Ashtabula
train disaster a Pacific Express, carrying some 159 passengers and
crew, was traveling over a bridge near Ashtabula, Ohio. Only the
first engine of the train made it to the other side at 7:28 p.m. as
the bridge began to collapse. The rest of the train broke away and
plummeted to the bottom of the ravine below. Approximately 92 men,
women and children were killed. The bridge was owned by the Lake
Shore and Michigan railroad, and was the joint creation of Charles
Collins, Engineer, and Amasa Stone, Chief Architect and Designer.
After testifying before an investigative jury, Charles Collins
quietly went home and shot himself in the head. He was also buried
in the Chestnut Grove Cemetery, several feet from the mass grave.
Amasa Stone (1818-1883) committed suicide approximately 7 years
later. Stone was held partly responsible for the disaster by
the same investigative jury before which Collins had testified, and
was publicly scorned for many years.
(http://deadohio.com/AshTrain.htm)

1876 James Garfield, US
president assassinated in 1881, purchased his Lawnfield home in
Mentor, Ohio. In 1936 the home was donated to the Western Reserve
Historical Society.
(SFC, 2/11/04, p.F10)

1876 John Danner (b.1823) of
Canton, Ohio, invented and patented a revolving bookcase. His John
Danner Mfg. Co. soon expanded to produce drug cases, cabinets and
store stools.
(SFC, 12/21/05, p.G6)
1876 In Dayton, Ohio, the Royal
Remedy and Extract Co. was founded by Irvin Souders. The company was
incorporated in 1888 and introduced Sweet Wheat chewing gum in
1889.
(SFC, 3/12/08, p.G4)

1877 Lafcadio Hearn
(1850-1904), Irish-American travel writer, left Cincinnati for New
Orleans, Louisiana, where he initially wrote dispatches on his
discoveries in the "Gateway to the Tropics" for the Cincinnati
Commercial. He lived in New Orleans for nearly a decade, writing
first for the Daily City Item and later for the Times Democrat.
(Econ, 8/28/10,
p.26)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lafcadio_Hearn)

1878 Nov 2, Edward Scripps
(1854-1926) and John Scripps Sweeney founded the Penny Press. Ellen
Scripps helped her younger half brother, Edward W. Scripps, begin
his Penny Press in Cleveland, Ohio. She gave financial support and
contributed articles and columns to the Penny Press while continuing
her work for the Detroit Evening News.
(http://tinyurl.com/3dc4tx)(http://ech.case.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=SEW)

1878 Philip Marqua of
Cincinnati invented the "swing stand horse," a toy horse that moves
back and forth on a stand as an alternative to the rocking horse.
(SFC,12/24/97, Z1 p.6)

1879 Feb 10, The 1st electric
arc light was used in a California Theater. The first electric arc
lights were installed in Cleveland in this year. Some women
complained that the white light blanched their complexions in a most
ghastly manner.
(MC, 2/10/02)(SFC, 11/30/96, p.B5)

1879 James Ritty
(1836-1918) and his brother invented the 1st cash register. It was
to combat stealing by bartenders in his Dayton, Ohio, saloon. The
first model looked like a clock, but instead of the hands indicating
hours and minutes, they indicated dollars and cents. Behind the dial
two adding discs accumulated the total of the amounts recorded.
Known as "the incorruptible cashier," with no cash drawer, it would
show anyone within sight how much had been recorded. They received a
patent Jan 30, 1883.
(www.inventors.about.com)(www.uspto.gov/go/kids/kidjan.htm)

1881 Adolph Ochs was invited by
Leo Wise, editor of "The American Israelite," for dinner in
Cincinnati, where Ochs met Leo's sister Iphigenia Miriam Wise
(Effie). Her father, Isaac Mayer Wise, was the force behind the
formation of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations and the
Hebrew Union College and is generally considered to be the founder
of Reform Judaism in America.
(SFEM, 1/16/00, p.10)

1882 The Globe Files Co. was
founded in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1898 it introduced a vertical filing
system.
(SFC, 8/9/06, p.G3)

1863 Mar 25, US Sec. of War
Edward Stanton awarded Corp. William Pittenger of the 2nd Ohio
Regiment and 5 other Union soldiers the first US Medals of Honor.
Pittenger had been a member of Andrews Raiders who stole the
locomotive “General" in Georgia on April 12, 1862. Civilian spy
James Andrews and 7 other were hanged in 1862 following a
Confederate court martial.
(ON, 8/08, p.12)

1883 Jul 11, In Cincinnati the
Reform Jewish Seminary held a dinner for its 1st class of rabbis.
The meal gained notoriety for abrogating every rule of kashrut,
except the prohibition against pork.
(WSJ, 7/6/01, p.W11)

1864 May 16, Platt Rogers
Spencer (b.1800), the originator of Spencerian penmanship, a popular
system of cursive handwriting, died in Geneva, Ohio.
(WSJ, 1/24/09,
p.W8)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platt_Rogers_Spencer)

1884 Nov 20, Norman Thomas,
socialist and Pres. Candidate 1928-48, was born in Marion, Ohio, and
ran for president in six successive elections beginning in 1928.
(HNQ, 10/21/98)(MC, 11/20/01)

1884 Moses Fleetwood Walker, a
black man, played 42 games for the Toledo Blue Stockings of the
American Association.
(WSJ, 1/30/04, p.A1)

1884 In Dayton, Ohio, John H.
Patterson founded the National Cash Register Company (NCR), maker of
the first mechanical cash registers. In 1974 the company changed its
name to NCR Corp. From 1991 to 1996 it was part of AT&T.
(www.ncr.com/history/history.htm)(SFC, 5/21/08,
p.G7)

1886 Dec 8, The American
Federation of Labor (AFL) was founded at a convention of union
leaders in Columbus, Ohio, by some 25 labor groups representing
about 150,000 members. The first president of the American
Federation of Labor was Samuel Gompers, who had reorganized the
Cigarmakers Union and participated in the founding of the Federation
of Organized Trades and Labor Unions in 1881.
(AP, 12/8/97)(HNPD, 9/7/99)

1887 In western Ohio Newton S.
Conway discovered the skeleton of a 10,000 year old mastodon on his
farm on the Clark-Champaign County line. The skeleton, about 70%
intact, became known as the Conway Mastodon.
(SSFC, 1/9/11, p.A10)(http://tinyurl.com/2ecv34t)

1889 Sep 8, Robert A. Taft,
U.S. Senator from Ohio, was born. He unsuccessfully sought the
presidential nomination in 1952. He was the son of the 27th
president of the U.S. William Howard Taft. Robert was known as "Mr.
Republican" because of his steadfast espousal of traditional
conservative values. Taft was a candidate for the Republican
presidential nomination three times and served in the Senate from
1938 until his death in 1953. Taft consistently opposed the New Deal
program, led the Congressional isolationist bloc and fought the
Lend-Lease bill.
(HN, 9/8/98)(HNQ, 7/8/99)

1889 In Toledo the W.I. Libbey
& Son Co. made a pattern of milk glass that resembled ears of
corn.
(SFC,11/19/97, Z1 p.7)

1890 Aug 6, Cy Young gained the
first of his 511 major league victories as he pitched the Cleveland
Spiders to a win over the Chicago Colts. However, the score is a
matter of dispute, with some sources saying 6-1, and others saying
8-1.
(AP, 8/6/07)

1890 Kenton Hardware
Manufacturing Co. was founded in Kenton, Ohio, to make locks. Within
a few year the company began making toys.
(SFC, 5/28/08, p.G2)

1890 Roseville Pottery did
business in Roseville and Zanesville, Ohio, from 1890 to 1954.
(SFC, 9/20/06, p.G3)

1892 In Marietta, Ohio, Collins
R. Stevens (d.1921) and Orin C. Klock began manufacturing reed
organs under the name Stevens & Klock. The company went out of
business in 1924.
(SFC, 12/17/08, p.G6)

1893 Jan 17, The 19th president
of the United States, Rutherford B. Hayes, died in Fremont, Ohio, at
age 70.
(AP, 1/17/98)

1893 Nov 20, The struggling
Western League of Professional Baseball Clubs, meeting in Detroit,
Michigan, elected Byron Bancroft Johnson (29), a former ballplayer
and Cincinnati sportswriter, as president. He had been recommended
by Charles Comiskey, a potential investor in the league and manager
of the National League’s Cincinnati Reds.
(ON, 6/09, p.10)

1893 The Anti-Saloon League
formed in Ohio. It became national in 1895 when it merged with an
organization in Washington D.C.
(AH, 2/05, p.72)

1897 Marcus Hanna was elected
to the US Senate. Hanna, an Ohio industrialist, led the 1896
fund-raising for Pres. McKinley and personally underwrote the cost
of winning the 1st modern presidential campaign. In 1929 Thomas Beer
authored a biography of Hanna.
(WSJ, 3/24/04, p.B1)

1897 Sep 11, A strike by some
75,000 coal miners in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia
ended after 10 weeks. Concessions included an eight-hour work day,
semi-monthly pay, and the abolition of company stores (which were
famous for over charging workers). The day before, about 20 miners
were killed when sheriff's deputies opened fire on them in
Pennsylvania.
(AP, 9/11/97)(MC, 9/11/01)

1897 Adolphe Chaillet, French
inventor and US immigrant, developed a coiled filament carbon lamp
that burned brighter than existing models. He met John C. Fish of
Shelby, Ohio and began an association that was to be the start of
the Shelby Electric Company. In 1901 a Shelby bulb was installed in
a Livermore, Ca., firehouse. Though it was moved a few times, as of
2011 it was still working.
(www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohscogs/shelbymuseum/ShelbyMuseum3.html)(SSFC,
2/6/11, p.C1)

1898 May 31, Norman Vincent
Peale (d1993), American religious leader, was born in Ohio. He later
authored "The Power of Positive Thinking."
(HN, 5/31/01)(MC, 5/31/02)

1898 In Ohio James M. Cox
(d.1957), a 28-year-old school teacher, borrowed $26,000 and bought
the Dayton Daily News. It grew to become the 1998 Cox Enterprises
with 18 daily newspapers, 21 cable TV systems and 20 radio and TV
stations.
(WSJ, 1/29/98, p.A19)

1899 Coburn Haskell of
Cleveland with the help of a BF Goodrich scientist came up with a
liquid-center gutta-percha golf ball. [2nd source says 1898]
(SFC, 6/21/97, p.E4) (WSJ, 6/15/00, p.A1)

1899 Sep 13, The first reported
fatal car accident in the US was in Ohio when Henry H. Bliss, a
"real estate dealer" was hit by an electric taxi as he exited a
trolley on West 74th Street and Central Park West.
(http://tinyurl.com/83xl65b)(SFC, 10/10/97,
p.A21)

1900 Jan 30, John P. Parker
(b.1827), Ohio-based inventor and conductor on the Underground
Railway, died. His autobiography “His Promised Land: The
Autobiography of John P. Parker, Former Slave and Conductor on the
Underground Railway" was recounted in a series of interviews and
later edited by Stuart Seely Sprague and published in 1996.
(ON, 12/11,
p.5)(www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=2466&nm=John-P-Parker)

1900 Apr 26, Charles Richter
(1985), seismologist, was born in Hamilton, Ohio. He developed the
Richter Scale for measuring the amplitude of earthquakes.
(AP,
4/26/98)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Francis_Richter)

1900-1910 In the early 1900s A.C. Williams Co. of
Ravenna, Ohio, became the world’s largest producer of toys and still
banks. The company had started out manufacturing stoves and tools.
(SFC, 3/1/06, p.G7)

1901 Jan 28, Byron Bancroft
Johnson announced that the American League would play the 1901
baseball season as a major league and would not renew its membership
in the National Agreement. The new league would include Baltimore
and Washington, DC, recently abandoned by the National League. The
league would also invade 4 cities where National League teams
existed: Boston, Cleveland, Detroit and Philadelphia. The 8 charter
teams included: the Baltimore Orioles, Boston Americans, Chicago
White Stockings, Cleveland Blues, Detroit Tigers, Milwaukee Brewers,
Philadelphia Athletics, and Washington Senators.
(ON, 6/09,
p.11)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_League)

1901 The Wright Brothers
constructed new wings for a large glider using existing aerodynamics
tables. The flight was marginal so they tested the tables by
analyzing model wings in a wind tunnel. The tables proved to be
wrong and they painstakingly computer new ones.
(NPub, 2002, p.6)

1902 Dec 9, Margaret Hamilton,
character actress, was born in Cleveland, Oh. She became best known
as the Wicked Witch in the Wizard of Oz (1939).
(www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=3146)

1902 The Crooksville China Co.
of Crooksville, Ohio, began operations and continued to 1959. Their
products included the Stinthal China brand name.
(SFC, 8/20/08, p.G4)
1902 The Owen China Co. of
Minerva, Ohio, was founded by Edward J. Owen. It was forced to close
during the Depression in 1932.
(SFC, 1/21/09, p.G4)
1902 The Wright Brothers built
a glider based on their new aerodynamics tables. Efficiency was
almost doubled and they made over 1,000 flights at Kill Devil Hills
near Kitty Hawk, NC.
(NPub, 2002, p.6)

1903 Jan, The American League
and the National League representatives met in Cincinnati and
produced the rough outlines of a deal in which each would maintain
independence, but coordinate schedules.
(ON, 6/09, p.12)

1903 Dec 17, The Wright
brothers' Flyer I flew for 12 seconds in the first airplane flight
at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The brothers were the sons of a
Dayton, Ohio, bishop (Church of the United Brethren). Orville Wright
made the first powered, controlled and sustained flight. Orville,
lying prone at the 605-pound plane's controls, flew a distance of
120 feet in 12 seconds. Wilbur ran beside Flyer's wing tip until it
was airborne to keep the wing from dragging in the sand. Four
sustained flights were made on this day. The 4th flight lasted
fifty-nine seconds. The momentous events of that day received little
press attention, since the reticent Wright brothers feared their
ideas would be stolen by rival aviators. It was not until 1908,
after making many refinements to their flying machine, that the
Wrights embarked on a series of public demonstrations that finally
earned them worldwide acclaim. A one-hour PBS documentary covered
their life as part of "The American Experience." In 2015 David
McCullough authored “the Wright Brothers."
(WSJ, 2/8/96, p.A-12)(AP, 12/17/97)(HNPD,
12/17/98)(SSFC, 12/14/03, p.D3)(SSFC, 12/14/03, p.D3)(SFEC, 9/26/99,
p.B8)(Econ., 4/25/15, p.78)

1903 Jul 21, Dr. Horatio Nelson
Jackson arrived in Cleveland with his mechanic Sewell Croker
escorted by a fleet of new Winton automobiles. They were enroute to
NYC from San Francisco in a $2,500 Winton touring car.
(ON, 9/04, p.10)

1903 Burton Westcott
(1868-1926) brought his family business, the Westcott Motor Car.
Co., from Richmond Ind., to Springfield, Ohio, where its cars were
assembled by hand.
(WSJ, 8/16/07, p.D7)

1904 Sep 15, Wilbur Wright made
his 1st controlled half-circle while in flight with Flyer II. On Sep
20 he flew a full circle for the first time.
(http://tinyurl.com/pkwd37)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_Flyer_II)

1904 Sep 19, Bergen Baldwin
Evans (d.1978), American educator and author who wrote the
"Dictionary of Contemporary American Usage," was born in Ohio.
"Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without
freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt."
(AP, 8/11/98)(HN, 9/19/98)(MC, 9/19/01)

1904 Sun Manufacturing moved
from Greenfield, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio, and manufactured coffee
mills there until about 1920.
(SFC, 2/7/07, p.G7)

1904 Otto H.L. Wernicke joined
his Michigan furniture business with the Ohio Globe Files Co. to
form the Globe-Wernicke Co. Around 1905 Wernicke Furniture purchased
the Fred Macey Furniture Co. and began making stackable bookcases.
Globe-Wernicke sued Macey in 1906 for using its patents. After years
of litigation Globe lost.
(SFC, 8/9/06, p.G3)

1906 Feb 9, Poet Paul Laurence
Dunbar (33), son of former slaves, died of TB in his hometown of
Dayton, Ohio.
(AH, 2/06, p.15)

1906 Feb 17, Alice Lee
Roosevelt, President Theodore Roosevelt's irrepressible eldest
daughter, married Congressman Nicholas Longworth of Ohio in an
elaborate White House ceremony. Heedless of social convention,
Alice's behavior routinely shocked her family and friends. Once the
president, when confronted with another of Alice's escapades,
remarked, "I can do one of two things, I can run the country or
control Alice. I cannot do both." Nevertheless, the world public was
captivated with the first daughter, who seemed to embody the ideal
Gay Nineties woman. In spite of its promising beginning, Alice's
25-year marriage to Longworth was not a happy one, but Alice reigned
as the grande dame of Washington, D.C. society for another 50 years.
(HNPD, 2/16/99)

1906 Frank Lloyd Wright
designed the Westcott House in Springfield, Ohio. In 2000 the
non-profit Westcott House Foundation purchased the house for
$300,000 and then spent 5 years and $5.8 million in renovations.
(WSJ, 8/16/07, p.D7)

1907 Nov 16, Burgess Meredith,
actor, was born in Cleveland. He died Sep 10, 1997 at 89. He played
the Penguin on TV’s Batman and numerous films in a 60 year film
career.
(HIR, 9/11/97, p.5B)(SFC, 9/11/97, p.A18)

1908 Mar 4, A fire at Lake View
School in Collinwood, Ohio, claimed the lives of 172 children and
three adults.
(AP, 3/4/08)

1908 Mar 7, Cincinnati Mayor
Mark Breith stood before city council and announced that, "women are
not physically fit to operate automobiles."
(MC, 3/7/02)

1908 William Henry Hoover, an
inventive janitor and founder of the Hoover Vacuum Co., produced the
Model O, the first commercially successful portable electric vacuum
cleaner. The Hoover Historical Center in North Canton, Ohio, was
devoted to carpet-cleaning history.
(SFEC, 1/10/99, p.T3)

1909 Jun 7, Cleveland
Industrial Exposition opened.
(SC, 6/7/02)

1910 The Nelson McCoy Sanitary
Stoneware Co. was founded in Roseville, Ohio. In 1933 the name was
changed to the Nelson McCoy Pottery Co. and it stayed in business
until 1990.
(SFC, 8/10/05, p.G4)

1911 Nov 5, Roy Rogers, singing
cowboy (Happy Trails, Roy Rogers Show), was born. He was born as
Leonard Franklin Slye in Cincinnati where his father worked in a
shoe factory. He died in 1998 at age 86.
(SFC, 7/7/98, p.A1,2)(MC, 11/5/01)

1913 Mar 15, Lewis Robert
Wasserman (d.2002) was born in Cleveland. In 1946 Dr. Jules Stein
(d.1981), founder of Music Corp. of America hired Lew Wasserman as
director of advertising and public relations. Wasserman went on to
expand the company as MCA Inc. into a major entertainment
conglomerate.
(SFC, 6/4/02, p.A18)

1915 Dec 27, In Ohio, iron and
steel workers went on strike for an eight hour day and higher wages.
(HN, 12/27/98)

1915 Orville Wright (1871-1948)
sold his interest in the Wright Company and retired.
(NPub, 2002, p.9)

1916 Jul 25, An explosion at
the Cleveland Waterworks tunnel project trapped 12 men and 18
would-be rescuers. 8 men were saved and 10 bodies were recovered by
a team led by black inventor Garrett A. Morgan (d.1963) dressed in
his new Safety Hood.
(ON, 3/02, p.12)

1917 Jun 17, Dean Martin,
singer and comedian, was born as Dino Crocetti in Steubenville,
Ohio. He worked with Jerry Lewis. His films included "My Friend
Irma," "Hollywood or Bust," "Airport," "Bells are Ringing" and "Rio
Bravo." [see Jun 7]
(MC, 6/17/02)

1918 Oct 11, Archibald M.
Willard (b.1836), American artist, died in Ohio. His paintings
included “Spirit of ’76" (1876).
(www.nationalsojourners.org/heroes.html)

1918 May 1, Jack Paar (d.2004),
later late-night TV talk show host, was born in Canton, Ohio.
(www.museum.tv/archives/etv/P/htmlP/paarjack/paarjack.htm)

1919 Jul 4, Jack Dempsey, the
"Manassa Mauler", defeated Jess Willard by a knockout in Toledo,
Ohio, after three rounds to become the World's Heavyweight Boxing
Champion.
(IB, Internet, 12/7/98)

1919 Oct 1, In baseball’s World
Series the Chicago White Sox faced the Cincinnati Reds in a best of
9 games. The White Sox intentionally threw the series to satisfy
gamblers in what became known as the Black Sox Scandal. 8 players
were banned from baseball for life. In 1963 Eliot Asinof described
the events in his book “Eight men Out." The 1988 baseball film
"Eight Men Out" was directed by John Sayles.
(SFEC, 6/21/98, BR p.8)(SFC, 7/14/96, DB
p.33)(AH, 10/04, p.14)

1919 Oct 9, The Cincinnati Reds
won the World Series, defeating the Chicago White Sox 10-5 at
Comiskey Park. The victory turned hollow amid charges eight of the
White Sox had thrown the Series in what became known as the "Black
Sox" scandal.
(AP, 10/9/08)

1919 Edgar Allen 1862-1937),
Ohio businessman, founded the National Society for Crippled
Children. In 1934 the organization launched its first Easter Seal
fundraising campaign. In 1952 it incorporated the lily flower as its
symbol. In 1967 the organization adopted Easter Seals as ifs formal
name.
(www.extramile.us/honorees/allen.cfm)

1920 Jun 28, The Democrats
opened their convention, the first in the West, in San Francisco.
James Cox of Ohio was elected presidential candidate on the 44th
ballot on July 6.
(WSJ, 1/29/98, p.A19)(SFEC, 4/25/99, Z1 p.4)(AH,
10/04, p.56)

1920 Jul 6, The Democrats ended
their convention in San Francisco with the selection James Cox of
Ohio and running mate Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Cox and FDR were
committed internationalists and lost the elections due to the
isolationism of the times.
(SFEC, 4/25/99, Z1 p.4)(AH, 10/04, p.56)

1920 Sep 17, The American
Professional Football Association -- a precursor of the NFL -- was
formed in Canton, Ohio. 12 teams paid $100 each to join American
Prof Football Assn. Jim Thorpe was the first president. The name was
changed to the National Football League (NFL) in 1922. The NFL
merged with the AFL in 1970.
(AP, 9/17/97)(SFC, 7/11/98, p.B3)(HNQ,
11/19/00)(MC, 9/17/01)

1920 Aug 20, A preliminary
meeting was held in Akron, Ohio, to form the American Pro Football
League.
(MC, 8/20/02)

1922 The Mills Brothers began
performing in Piqua, Ohio. Donald Mills (d.1999), the youngest
brother (7), Harry, Herbert and John (d.1936) later made their first
hit with "Tiger Rag." Other hits included "Glow Worm," "Yellow Bird"
and "Paper Doll."
(SFC, 11/16/99, p.E6)

1923 Aug 2, The 29th president
of the United States, Warren G. Harding (57), died in San Francisco
at the Palace Hotel of a "stroke of apoplexy." Not considered to
have been a particularly intelligent man, Harding owed his rise to
political power to the driving ambition of his wife, Florence Kling
Harding. As president, the Ohio native was troubled by scandals
caused by his weakness for pretty women and a tendency to place
unscrupulous friends--called "The Ohio Gang"--in positions of power.
Graft, corruption and other scandals that led to the suicides of two
high Federal officials had begun to taint the Harding Administration
when the president suddenly died of a heart attack, just before the
Teapot Dome Scandal broke, the largest scandal of his
administration. In 1998 Carl Sferrazza Anthony published "Florence
Harding: The First Lady, The Jazz Age and the Death of America’s
Most Scandalous President."
(TMC, 1994, p.1923)(AP, 8/2/97)(SFEC, 3/1/98,
p.W27)(SFC, 8/1/98, p.A15,19)(HN, 8/2/98)

1923 Sep 21, Gordon Battelle
(b.1883), industrialist and researcher, died following an
appendectomy at a Columbus, Ohio, hospital. In his will, he left the
bulk of his estate, about $1.6 million, to the establishment of
Battelle Memorial Institute, founded in 1929.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Battelle)

1923-1939 The Fraunfelter China Co. operated in
Zanesville, Ohio, during most of this period. Charles Fraunfelter
opened the business when he purchased Ohio Pottery, where he had
worked since 1915.
(SFC, 12/21/05, p.G6)

1925 Earl Derr Biggers
(1884-1933), Ohio-born novelist, published “The House Without a
Key." The novel included the fictional Chinese-American detective
Charlie Chan, who became immortalized in 6 novels and 47 movies. In
2010 Yunte Huang authored “Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the
Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous With American History."
(SSFC, 9/5/10,
p.F2)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Chan)

1929 Aug 11, Babe Ruth hit his
500th major league home run against the Cleveland Indians.
(HN, 8/10/98)

1929 Oct, The Battelle Memorial
Institute, a research and development organization, opened its doors
in Columbus, Ohio. It was founded on industrialist-turned-researcher
Gordon Battelle’s vision that business and scientific interests can
go hand-in-hand as forces for positive change.
(http://www.battelle.org/)

1930 Apr 21, In Columbus, Ohio,
322 people were killed at the Ohio Penitentiary after a fire started
on scaffolding. Most died of smoke inhalation when breakdown in
command kept guards from unlocking cell doors. This was the worst
prison fire in US history.
(AP, 2/16/12)

1930 Jul 4, George
Steinbrenner, (George Michael Steinbrenner, III) businessman and
baseball executive, was born in Rocky River, Ohio. He became the
principal owner of the New York Yankees baseball team (1973-90);
ordered by the Commissioner of Baseball to give up active management
of the Yankee franchise for alleged association with gamblers; he is
now back in control; known for firing one Yankee manager after
another.
(IB, Internet, 12/7/98)

1930 Aug 5, Neil Armstrong, the
first man to walk on the moon, was born in Ohio.
(HN, 8/5/98)

1931 May 7, Teresa Brewer
(d.2007), singer, was born in Toledo, Ohio. She had a big hit with
“Music, Music, Music" in 1950.
(SFC, 10/19/07, p.A11)

1931 Severance Hall was
completed in Cleveland and became the home of the Cleveland
Orchestra. A $36 million expansion and renovation was unveiled Jan
8, 2000.
(WSJ, 12/28/99, p.A16)

1931-1947 Eugene Goosens served as the music
director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.
(SFC, 1/26/00, p.B4)

1932 Kenton Hardware
Manufacturing Co., founded in Ohio in 1890 as a lock maker, began
making toy concrete mixers under the Jaeger brand name. The company
closed in 1952.
(SFC, 5/28/08, p.G2)

1932 Barzilla L. Marble
(b.1851), Ohio chair maker, died. His B.L. Marble Chair Co. made
chairs for homes from 1894 to 1910, when the company switched to
making office furniture. In 1965 Marble Chair merged with the
Dictaphone Corp.
(www.bedfordohiohistory.org/build/marble.php)

1933 Oct 12, Bank robber John
Dillinger escaped from a jail in Allen County, Ohio, with the help
of his gang, who killed the sheriff, Jess Sarber.
(AP, 10/12/07)

1936 Marion Sumner (d.1997 at
77), mountain fiddler, made his radio debut at station WCPO in
Cincinnati playing with the Haley Brothers.
(SFC, 8/21/97, p.C4)

1937 Jan 27, The Ohio River
crested at 57.1 feet, almost thirty feet above flood stage. The
flood of 1937 took place in late January and February. Damage
stretching from Pittsburgh to Cairo, Illinois. One million persons
were left homeless, with 385 dead and property losses reaching $500
million. The Mississippi River crested at 14.8 meters. Flooding left
37 people dead in Arkansas. In 2010 Patrick O’Daniel authored
“Memphis and the Superflood of 1937: High Water
Blues."
(http://tinyurl.com/43h4l54)(http://tinyurl.com/3g4qcdg)

1938 Oct, Oberlin College in
Oberlin, Ohio, admitted four female students and became the first
institution of higher learning to admit women to its college
programs on an equal basis with men. Prior to 1838, boys and girls
had studied together in its primary and secondary programs, while
older girls studied at Oberlin‘s female seminary.
(HNQ, 6/3/00)

1941 Jul 17, The longest
hitting streak in baseball history ended when the Cleveland Indians
pitchers held NY Yankee Joe DiMaggio, the Yankee Clipper, hitless
for the first time in 57 games. His hitting streak ended with 56
games.
(www.baseball-almanac.com/feats/feats3.shtml)(SFC, 3/9/99, p.A10)

1942 May 14, Aaron Copland's
"Lincoln Portrait" was first performed by the Cincinnati Symphony
Orchestra, conducted by Andre Kostelanetz, who had commissioned the
work.
(AP, 5/14/98)

1942 Jun, The US authorized an
additional 200 blimps, most of which were built by Goodyear Co. of
Akron, Ohio. When the war began the Navy had 10 blimps.
(Ind, 1/27/00, 5A)

1946 Sep 21, The Cleveland
Indians played their final game in League Park, ending a 55-year
stay.
(MC, 9/21/01)

1946 Oct 8, Dennis Kucinich, US
Congressmen for Ohio, was born in Cleveland. He stood as a
presidential candidate in 2004 and in 2008.
(SSFC, 2/29/04, p.D2)(WSJ, 1/25/08, p.A1)

1946 Russian immigrant Dietrich
Gustav Rempel opened Rempel Manufacturing on Morgan Avenue in Akron,
Ohio. He produced a line of latex squeak toys under the Sunnyslope
name. Artist Fred G. Reiner designed his toys.
(SFC, 12/21/05, p.G6)(SFC, 4/12/06, p.G4)

1946 In Ohio William Powell, a
black man, began hand building his Clearview Golf Club. The club
opened for 9-hole play in 1948. By 1978 he had expanded to 18 holes.
In 2001 it was added to the national register of historic places.
(WSJ, 10/25/08,
p.W6)(www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-75087113.html)

1947 Jul 5, Larry Doby
signed a contract with the Cleveland Indians, becoming the first
black player in the American League.
(AP, 7/5/97)

1947 Jul, Senator John Bricker,
a republican from Ohio, was shot at twice as he entered the Senate
subway. William L. Kaiser, a former Capital police officer, missed 2
times. He had lost money when an Ohio building and loan firm was
liquidated.
(SFC, 7/25/98, p.A6)

1947 John C. Lincoln, a
Cleveland industrialist, endowed the Lincoln Foundation to teach and
expound on the ideas of Henry George, a 19th century economist who
argued for a single tax based on property values.
(WSJ, 5/28/99, p.B4)

1947 Joseph Lowenbach Steiner
(d.2002 at 95) and his 2 brothers founded Kenner Products Co. The
firm launched the Bubble Rocket in 1949, the Easy-Bake Oven in 1963,
and the Spirograph in 1966. General Mills acquired the company in
1967.
(SFC, 5/16/02, p.A20)

1950 Sep 5, Cathy Guisewite,
cartoonist and creator of the “Cathy" cartoon strip, was born in
Dayton, Ohio. In 2010 Guisewite said her cartoon strip, begun in
1976, would end on Oct 3.
{Cartoons, USA, Ohio}
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathy_Guisewite)(SFC, 8/12/10, p.A12)

1951 Alan Freed began playing
black "rhythm and blues" music on Cleveland radio.
(SFC, 12/29/99, p.E3)

1951 Lois Wyse (1926-2007) and
her husband Marc Wyse founded Wyse Advertising in Cleveland. Lois
Wyse later wrote the jingle for jam maker Smucker's: “With a name
like Smucker’s, it has to be good." Her 1967 “Love Poems for the
Very Married" sold over 200,000 copies. She later authored novels
and books of advice for working women such as “Mrs. Success" (1971).
(WSJ, 1/7/07, p.A4)

1952 Mar 21, The Moondog
Coronation Ball was held at the Cleveland Arena. It was promoted by
Alan Freed and was later cited as the 1st rock concert. The only
band to perform was one led by Paul Williams, before fire
marshals closed the show.
(SFC, 10/7/02, p.A19)

1954 Jul 4, Marilyn Sheppard
(31 and pregnant) was killed at her home near Cleveland and her
husband, Dr. Sam Sheppard (d.1970), was later accused, tried and
jailed for the murder. Sam was released from jail in 1964. His story
inspired the TV series "The Fugitive" and a film in 1993. DNA
evidence in 1997 indicated a third person was involved. Cleveland’s
chief prosecutor ruled in 1998 that the DNA samples were too old.
(SFC, 2/5/97, p.A6)(SFC, 3/5/98, p.A3)(SFC,
3/6/98, p.A3)

1956 Dec 22, The 1st gorilla
was born in captivity at Columbus, Ohio.
(MC, 12/22/01)

1957 Jul 15, James M. Cox
(b.1870), 3-time Ohio governor and founder of Cox Enterprises, died.
Cox was defeated in the 1920 Presidential Election by fellow Ohioan
Senator Warren G. Harding of Marion, Ohio. He left his family a
business that included broadcast properties and a string of
newspapers.
(WSJ, 6/2/07,
p.A5)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_M._Cox)

1957 Jul, In Ohio a pedestrian
was killed after being struck by a vehicle. Frank Freshwaters was
convicted of manslaughter in the case and given a suspended sentence
of one to 20 years. In 1959 the sentence was imposed after he
violated probation by driving and getting a license. He escaped from
a prison farm and was arrested in 1975 in West Virginia, but the
governor refused to send him back to Ohio and he was freed and
disappeared again. In 2015 Freshwaters (79) was arrested in Florida.
(SFC, 5/6/15, p.A14)

1960-1972 Some 90 cancer patients at the Univ. of
Cincinnati Gen’l. Hospital were administered doses of radiation. The
project was funded by the Defense Dept. for data on how radiation
might affect troops. A federal judge approved a $4.3 million
settlement in 1997 to the relatives of the patients along with a
government apology.
(SFC,10/30/97, p.A3)

1961 The 1997 film "Telling
Lies in America," written by Eszterhas, was a reminiscence of 1961
Cleveland.
(SFC, 9/10/97, p.E1)(SFC, 9/10/97, p.E3)

1963 Sep 7, The National
Professional Football Hall of Fame was dedicated in Canton, Ohio.
(AP, 9/7/97)

1963 Nov 23, Sixty-three
elderly people, most of them sleeping, were killed by a fire
destroying the one-story Golden Age Nursing Home near Fitchville,
Ohio.
(AP, 11/23/02)

1964 Apr 17, Jerrie Mock
(1925-2014) became the first woman to complete a solo airplane
flight around the world. Her journey had begun on March 19 from
Columbus, Ohio.
(AP, 4/17/97)(SFC, 10/2/14, p.D4)

1965 Dawn Powell (b.1896),
Ohio-born American comic novelist, died. Her work anatomized and
skewered New York and included her autobiographical novel "My Home
Is Far Away." In 1998 Tim page authored: "Dawn Powell: A Biography."
(WSJ, 10/19/98, p.A24)

1966 Jul 19, Gov. James Rhodes
declared a state of emergency in Cleveland due to a race riot.
(MC, 7/19/02)

1967 Nov 7, Carl Stokes
(1927-1996) was elected the first black mayor of a major city --
Cleveland, Ohio. He served two terms as mayor from 1967 to 1971 and
was a leading advocate for increased federal aid to American cities.
After serving as mayor, Stokes became a television commentator and
later a judge in Cleveland.
(AP, 11/7/97)(HNQ, 1/9/03)

1967 Dec 15, In Point Pleasant,
West Virginia, it took less than 30 seconds for the Silver Bridge to
tumble into the Ohio River, killing 46 people and leaving towns on
either side stunned and bereft. The bridge had linked Point Pleasant
and Kanauga, Ohio, since 1928.
(AP, 12/15/07)

1967-1971 Robert W. Morse Sr. (d.2001 at 79)
served as president of Case Western Reserve Univ.
(SFC, 1/23/01, p.A19)

1969 May 25, Anne Heche,
actress, was born in Aurora, OH. Her films included “Donnie
Brasco" (1997) and “Volcano" (1997).
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Heche)

1969 Nov 15, Wendy's
Hamburgers, begun by Dave Thomas, opened in Ohio. In 2008 the chain
was sold to Triarc Cos., owner of the Arby’s roast beef sandwich
restaurant chain.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy's)(SFC,
4/25/08, p.D3)

1970 May 1, Students at Kent
State University rioted in downtown Kent, Ohio, in protest of the
American invasion of Cambodia.
(HN, 5/1/98)

1970 May 2, Student anti-war
protesters at Ohio's Kent State University burned down the campus
ROTC building. Ohio Governor James A. Rhodes ordered in the National
Guard to take control of the campus.
(HN, 5/2/98)(HNPD, 5/4/99)

1970 May 3, James A. Rhodes,
the governor of Ohio, in a press conference in Kent, called anti-war
protesters the "the worst type of people we harbor in America, worse
than the brownshirts and the communist element." Rhodes had ordered
the National Guard into Kent to quell anti-war demonstrations that
began after President Nixon announced the American incursion into
Cambodia on April 30.
(HNQ, 5/4/99)

1970 May 4,
At Kent State Univ. on Monday, a peaceful noontime rally was ordered
to disburse by guardsmen. At 12:20 p.m., a small group of Guardsmen
suddenly wheeled and fired into a group of protesters, killing four
and wounding 9-11 others. One wounded student was crippled for life
with damage to his spinal column. In the days that followed,
hundreds of colleges were shut down by student strikes and more than
100,000 demonstrators marched on Washington, D.C. Twenty-five years
after the event the National Guard insisted that it was
provoked into attacking the students contrary to eye-witnesses,
photographs, and later investigations. Renowned American sculptor
George Segal's bronze Abraham and Isaac was commissioned to
commemorate the killing of four Vietnam War protesters at Ohio's
Kent State University. The finished bronze is now part of Princeton
University's modern sculpture garden.
(NPR interview with the crippled survivor
5/4/95)(HFA, '96, p.30)(AP, 5/4/97)(HN, 5/4/98)(HNQ, 8/24/98) (HNPD,
5/4/99)

1970 May 21, The National Guard
was mobilized to quell disturbances at Ohio State University. [see
May 4]
(HN, 5/21/98)

1970 Jul 30, George Szell
(b.1897)), Hungarian-US conductor, died in Cleveland, Ohio. He had
served as the music director of the Cleveland Orchestra since 1946.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Szell)

1970 Sep 26, The President’s
Commission on Campus Unrest, also referred to as the Scranton
Commission, investigated the Kent killings and found "The
indiscriminate firing of rifles into a crowd of students and the
deaths that followed were unnecessary, unwarranted, and
inexcusable." The commission, directed by former Pennsylvania
Governor William Scranton, was appointed by President Richard Nixon
shortly after the Kent State shootings and relied heavily on a
massive FBI investigation. The Scranton report also found student
conduct prior to the shootings partly responsible.
(HNQ, 5/4/98)

1971 Jun 30, The 26th Amendment
to the Constitution was ratified as Ohio became the 38th state to
approve it. The amendment lowered the minimum voting age to 18.
(AP, 6/30/97)

1971 James Michener
(1907-1997), American writer, authored "Kent State: What Happened
and Why" as well as his novel "The Drifters."
(SFC,10/17/97,
p.A17)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Michener)

1972
Jun 3, Sally J. Priesand (25) was ordained the 1st female US rabbi
by Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati,
Ohio. Upon ordination Rabbi Pries accepted a position at Stephen
Wise Free Synagogue in NYC where she served for seven years, first
as Assistant Rabbi and then as Associate Rabbi. From 1979-1981, she
was Rabbi of Temple Beth El in Elizabeth, New Jersey and also served
as Chaplain at Manhattan's Lenox Hill Hospital. Since 1981, she has
served as Rabbi of Monmouth Reform Temple in New Jersey.
(www.monmouth.com/~mrt/rabbi/bio.html)

1972 Jack Scott (d.2000 at 57)
was hired as the athletic director at Oberlin College. He was the
author of "The Athletic Revolution," which was initially called
"Athletics for Athletes." In 1974 he assisted William and Emily
Harris of the SLA from California to a hideout farm in Pennsylvania.
(SFC, 2/8/00, p.A23)

1974 Mar 29, In Ohio 8 National
Guardsmen were indicted on charges stemming from the shooting deaths
of 4 students at Kent State University. On Nov 8 the charges were
dismissed.
(AP, 3/29/07)

1974 Apr 3, A series of 148
deadly tornadoes struck wide parts of the South and Midwest before
jumping across the border into Canada; some 330 people were killed
in 13 states: Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky,
Michigan, Mississippi, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina,
Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. Total property damage was
estimated at $600 million. In 2007 Mark Levine authored “F5:
Devastation, Survival, and the Most Violent Tornado Outbreak of the
20th Century."
(AP, 4/3/99)(WSJ, 9/13/01, p.B11)(SSFC, 9/4/05,
p.A7)(WSJ, 6/16/07, p.P10)

1974 Jun 4, Ten Cent Beer Night
was an ill-fated promotion held by the American League's Cleveland
Indians during a game against the Texas Rangers at Cleveland
Municipal Stadium.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Cent_Beer_Night)

1974 Jun 26, At the Marsh
Supermarket in Troy, Ohio, Sharon Buchanon became the 1st cashier to
scan a Universal Product Code (UPC) code. The 59 black and white bar
code was used on a 67 cent 10-pack of Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit chewing
gum. The scanner was a Spectra-Physics Model A. Norman Joseph
Woodland and Bernard Silver (d.1962) had patented the 1st bar code
scanner in 1952. In 1977 an int’l. version was created.
(SFC, 7/5/04, p.E3)(SSFC, 11/6/05, p.B5)(SFC,
6/26/09, p.C3)

1974 Oct 3, Frank Robinson was
named major-league baseball's first black manager as he was placed
in charge of the Cleveland Indians.
(AP, 10/3/97)

1974 Nov 8, Charges were
dropped against eight Ohio National Guardsmen for their role in the
deaths of four anti-war protestors at Kent State University. On
March 29 a federal grand jury had indicted 8 National Guardsmen for
the May 4, 1970 Kent State shootings.
(SFC, 4/11/98,
p.A15)(http://speccoll.library.kent.edu/4may70/legalchronology.html)

1974 The US National History
Day project began as a yearlong program for junior and senior high
school students. NHD started as a small contest in Cleveland.
Members of the history department at Case Western Reserve University
developed the initial idea for a history contest to make teaching
and learning history a fun and exciting experience.
(SSFC, 12/17/00,
p.17)(www.nationalhistoryday.org/NHDHistory.htm)

1975 Frank Robinson joined the
Cleveland Indians as the 1st African American manager in major
league baseball.
(SFC, 4/11/03, p.E15)

1976 May 25, US Representative
Wayne L. Hays (Democrat, Ohio) admitted to a "personal relationship"
with Elizabeth Ray, a committee staff member who claimed she’d
received her job in order to be Hays’ mistress.
(AP, 5/25/00)

1977-1987 QUBE, an experiment in interactive TV,
was pioneered in Columbus by Warner Cable and American Express.
(WSJ, 7/7/99, p.A23)

1978 Dec 15, Cleveland became
the first major US city since the Great Depression to default on its
loans.
(AP, 12/15/08)

1978 Dec 30, Ohio State
University fired Woody Hayes as its football coach, one day after
Hayes punched Clemson University player Charlie Bauman during the
Gator Bowl after Bauman intercepted an Ohio pass.
(AP, 12/30/98)

1978 Devo, a new wave band from
Akron, Ohio, recorded "Are We Not Men?" The group played on the
theme of de-evolution and was led by Mark Mothersbaugh.
(SFEC, 9/27/98, DB p.41)

1979 Jan 4, Ohio officials
approved an out-of-court settlement awarding $675,000 to the victims
and families in the 1970 shootings at Kent State University, in
which four students were killed and nine wounded by National Guard
troops.
(HN,
1/4/99)(http://members.aol.com/nrbooks/chronol.htm)

1979 Dec 3, In Ohio 11 people
were killed in a crush of fans at Cincinnati's Riverfront Coliseum,
where The Who, a British rock group, was performing.
(AP, 12/3/97)(HN, 12/3/98)

1980 Jan 11, Honda announced
that it would build Japan's first US passenger-car assembly plant in
Ohio.
(HN, 1/11/99)

1980 Apr 5, Sister Margaret Ann
Pahl (71) was stabbed 31 times and strangled to death. Her body was
found in the chapel of Mercy Hospital, Toledo, Ohio. In 2004 Rev.
Gerald Robinson (63) was arrested for the murder. In 2006 Robinson
was convicted of murder. On July 4, 2014, Robinson, who continued to
maintain his innocence, died in a prison hospice unit.
(SFC, 4/24/04, p.A2)(SFC, 5/12/06, p.A3)(AP,
7/4/14)

1980 May 13, Ray Knight
(b.1952) of the Cincinnati Reds, following an 0-for-15 slump, hit 2
home runs in the 5th inning vs. NY Mets.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Knight)

1980 Ted Stepien (1925-2007), a
classified ad whiz, paid $2 million for a controlling 37% share of
the Cleveland Cavaliers basketball team and eventually acquired 80%
of the shares. In 1983 he sold the team to George and Gordon Gund,
owners of Cleveland’s Coliseum, in a deal that included his
advertising business. In the 1981-1982 season the Cavaliers won 15
games and lost 67, one of the worst records in NBA history.
(WSJ, 9/15/07, p.A6)

1982 Mar 6, In East Cleveland,
Ohio, Reginald Brooks (66) fatally shot his 3 sons while they slept
shortly after his wife filed for divorce. Brooks was executed in
Lucasville by lethal injection on Nov 15, 2011. He was oldest person
put to death since Ohio resumed executions in 1999.
(SFC, 11/16/11, p.A6)(http://tinyurl.com/7g4a4up)

c1982 AgriGeneral established
an egg farm in Croton, Ohio. It changed hands and was expanded in
1996 in Mt. Victoria along with a massive fly infestation. After the
fly epidemic it was fined $128,000 by the EPA for polluting a creek
that fed into the 230-mile Scioto River. The operation produced 2
million eggs per day. More expansion was planned.
(SFC, 8/4/97, p.A3)

1982 Honda, the first Japanese
auto maker to start production in the US, began making the Honda
Accord at Marysville, Ohio.
(WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv. Supl F, 10/7/96, p.71)(WSJ,
4/1/09, p.A20)

1983 Jun 2, A toilet caught
fire on Air Canada's DC-9 and 23 died at Cincinnati.
(SC, 6/2/02)

1983 Nov 18, In Ohio Jenean
Brown (19) went missing. Her body was found 36 hours later
outside Toledo. She had been beaten and nearly decapitated. In 2013
DNA tests linked Andrew Gustafson (56) to her murder. In 2014
Gustafson pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and rape and
was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
(SFC, 12/23/14, p.A5)(http://tinyurl.com/lrsnwx3)

1983 Dec 15, In Ohio motel
clerk Helen Vantz was killed in Elyria. Ronald Post was convicted of
her murder and sentenced to death. Post was granted clemency from
death in 2013 on the grounds that at 450 lbs he was too obese to be
executed humanely. Post (53) died in prison on July 26, 2013.
(SFC, 7/27/13, p.A6)

1983 John W. Byrd murdered a
convenience store worker. He was convicted and sentenced to death.
He was executed Feb 19, 2002, by lethal injection. He had earlier
chosen to die by the electric chair to demonstrate the brutality of
the method.
(SFC, 2/20/02, p.A7)

1984 Sep 21, In Cleveland,
Ohio, Romell Broom (b.1956) raped a murdered Tryna Middleton (14)
after abducting her at knife-point as she walked home from a
football game with friends. His execution in 2009 was delayed as
executioners failed to find a good vein for lethal injection.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romell_Broom)

1984 The first US Synchronized
Skating championships were held in Bowling Green, Ohio, with 38
teams competing.
(SFC, 2/23/09, p.E7)

1985 May 31, Some 41 tornadoes
swept through parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York and Ontario,
Canada, during an eight-hour period killing 88 people with over
1,000 injured.
(AP, 5/31/05)

1985 Sep 8, Pete Rose of the
Cincinnati Reds tied Ty Cobb's career record for hits with a single
for No. 4,191 during a game against the Cubs in Chicago.
(AP, 9/8/99)

1985 Sep 11, Pete Rose of the
Cincinnati Reds made his career hit 4,192 off Eric Show of San Diego
Padres, eclipsing Ty Cobb's record.
(MC, 9/11/01)

1985 In Ohio Dr. Michael Swango
was convicted of the non-lethal poisoning by arsenic of co-workers.
He was later accused of murdering as many as 35 patients. In 2000
James B. Stewart authored “Blind Eye: The Terrifying Story of a
Doctor Who got Away With Murder." In 2000 Swango was sentenced to
life in prison.
(WSJ, 7/19/00, p.A22)(SFC, 9/6/00, p.A5)

1986 Jesus Lopez-Cobos became
the music director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.
(SFC, 1/26/00, p.B4)

1986 Feb 27 John Demjanjuk
(66), a retired auto worker from Ohio, was extradited to Israel on
charges of being "Ivan the Terrible," a Nazi death camp guard who
had killed tens of thousands of people. He was later convicted, but
the Israeli Supreme Court overturned the ruling.
(AP, 4/25/98)(SFC, 2/22/02,
p.A3)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Demjanjuk)

1986 Jun 30, In Ohio a fire at
the Columbus Grove apartment complex killed 2-year-old Cynthia
Collins. Ken Richey (18) acknowledged he was intoxicated that night
and did not remember everything that happened. He agreed to plead no
contest to charges accusing him of leaving the toddler in harm's way
by failing to baby-sit the child after telling her mother that he
would. He was sentenced to the 21 years. In 2008 Richey returned to
Scotland.
(AP,
1/9/08)(http://truthinjustice.org/richey-reversed.htm)

1986 Sep, In Ohio University of
Akron students Dawn McCreery (20) and Wendy Offredo (21) were
sexually assaulted and killed. Richard Cooey (19) and a co-defendant
(17) were convicted for the sexual assaults and slayings. The
co-defendant was sentenced to life in prison because of his age.
Cooey was executed in 2008.
(AP, 10/14/08)

1987 Feb 16, John Demjanjuk
(66), a retired auto worker from Ohio, went on trial in Jerusalem,
accused of being "Ivan the Terrible," a guard at the Treblinka
concentration camp. He was convicted, but the Israeli Supreme Court
overturned the ruling.
(AP,
2/16/98)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Demjanjuk)

1988 Apr 25, To the cheers of
spectators, a judge in Jerusalem sentenced John Demjanjuk to death
after the retired Ohio autoworker was convicted of being "Ivan the
Terrible," a Nazi death camp guard who had killed tens of thousands
of people. Demjanjuk's conviction was overturned in 1993.
(AP, 4/25/98)(SFC, 2/22/02, p.A3)

1988 May 2, Cincinnati Reds
baseball manager Pete Rose was suspended for 30 days by National
League president A. Bartlett Giamatti, two days after Rose shoved an
umpire during a game won by the New York Mets, 6-5.
(AP, 5/2/98)

1989 Jan 22, In Super Bowl
XXXIII, the San Francisco 49ers came from behind to defeat the
Cincinnati Bengals 20-to-16 in Miami's Joe Robbie Stadium. Joe
Montana rifled a 10-yard touchdown pass to John Taylor with just 34
seconds left in the game to win.
(AP, 1/22/99)(SSFC, 1/19/14, DB p.42)

1989 Feb 12, In Ohio the body
of Joy Stewart (22) was found raped and fatally stabbed in Preble
County. She was eight months pregnant at the time. Dennis McGuire
was later convicted and sentenced to death. On Jan 16, 2014, McGuire
(53) was executed by a new combination of lethal drugs. The process
took nearly 25 minutes from injection to death and left him gasping
for air in the final minutes.
(SFC, 1/8/14,
p.A5)(http://tinyurl.com/kdp2x6z)(SFC, 1/17/14, p.A8)

1989 Apr 10, In Ohio Jeffrey
Lundgren (b.1950), a self-proclaimed prophet, led his cult in
planning and executing murders of the Avery family in order to bring
about a prophecy he interpreted from the Old Testament. Lundgren was
convicted of five counts of murder and executed on October 24, 2006
at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Lundgren)

1990 Oct 5, A jury in
Cincinnati acquitted an art gallery and its director of obscenity
charges stemming from an exhibit of sexually graphic photographs by
Robert Mapplethorpe.
(AP, 10/5/97)

1990 Oct 12, The Cincinnati
Reds won the National League pennant, defeating the Pittsburgh
Pirates 2-to-1.
(AP, 10/12/00)

1990 Dec 11, Four people died
near downtown Columbus, Ohio, after their hot air balloon hit a
television tower and deflated.
(AP, 2/26/13)

1991 Feb 8, In Ohio Kenneth
Biros (33) raped and killed Tami Engstrom (22) after offering her a
ride home from a bar in Trumbull county. He then scattered her body
parts in Ohio and Pennsylvania. Biros was executed in 2009.
(www.forgottenoh.com/Counties/Trumbull/biroshouse.html)(SFC,
12/9/09, p.A10)

1991 May 3, Carol Lutz (24) was
locked in the trunk of her car near Cleveland, Ohio, and burned to
death. In 2009 Daniel Wilson (39) was executed for her killing.
(SFC, 6/4/09,
p.A4)(http://zenas.org/bacheca/index.php?carol+lutz)

1992 Jan 26, In Cincinnati,
Ohio, 5 children died in an apartment fire that was set by William
Garner in an attempt to hide evidence of a burglary. Garner (37) was
later convicted of murder and executed on July 13, 2010.
(SFC, 7/14/10, p.A4)(http://tinyurl.com/2bq5puv)

1992 Nov 3, Bill Clinton,
governor of Arkansas, was elected as the 42nd president of the
United States, defeating President Bush, who won 38% of the popular
vote. Clinton won Ohio by 2 percentage points.
(AP, 11/3/97)(HN, 11/3/98)(SSFC, 4/29/01,
p.D1)(Econ, 8/2/08, p.31)

1992 Dec, Vice-Pres. elect Al
Gore issued a press release to review plans of hazardous waste
incinerator in East Livermore. The plant, located on the Ohio River
and 1,100 feet from an elementary school, went into operation.
(SFEC, 9/17/00, p.A14)

1992 Dec 24, In Ohio Marvallous
Keene and three accomplices began a three-day binge of murder and
robbery in Dayton that left 6 people dead. On July 21, 2009, Keene
(36) was executed at a Lucasville prison, the 1000th person to die
by lethal injection in the US since the death penalty was reinstated
in 1976.
(www.whiotv.com/news/20117736/detail.html)

1993 Mar 22, Cleveland Indians
pitchers Steve Olin and Tim Crews were killed when the boat they
were riding in slammed into a Florida pier; pitcher Bob Ojeda was
seriously injured.
(AP, 3/22/97)

1993 Apr 21, An 11-day siege at
the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility near Lucasville, Ohio, ended
after rioting inmates reached an agreement with prison officials.
One guard and nine inmates were killed during the siege.
(AP, 4/11/98)(AP, 4/21/98)

1993 Jul 29, The Israeli
Supreme Court acquitted retired Ohio autoworker John Demjanjuk of
being Nazi death camp guard "Ivan the Terrible," and threw out his
death sentence. Demjanjuk was set free. Soviet archives opened after
1991 seemed to prove that he was not Ivan the Terrible.
(AP, 7/29/98)(Econ, 3/24/12, p.98)

1994 Jul 15, During a baseball
game between the Cleveland Indians and the Chicago White Sox in
Chicago's Comiskey Park, umpire Dave Phillips ordered the bat of
Albert Belle of the Indians to be removed from the game for later
examination for illegal cork. The bat was then stolen by pitcher
Jason Grimsley, who crawled through air ducts to take it. The
Indians won the game 3-2 and later returned the bat under umpire
threats and Belle was given a 10-game suspension that was reduced to
7 games.
(SFEC, 4/11/99, p.A3)

1994 Aug 14, In Ohio Harry
Mitts Jr. shot and killed John Bryant (28) of Garfield Heights, a
black man, and Sgt. Dennis Glivar (44), a white police officer.
Mitts was distraught over a recent divorce and had been drinking
heavily. In 2013 Mitts (61) was executed by lethal injection.
(SFC, 9/25/13, p.A7)(http://tinyurl.com/pt4mewq)

1994 Sep, At the Oktoberfest in
Cincinnati a record for the ‘World’s Largest Chicken Dance" was set
with 48,000 people dancing.
(WSJ, 9/21/98, p.B1)

1995 Dec 14, An agreement for
peace in Bosnia, reached at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in
Dayton, Ohio, was formally signed. Presidents Alija Izetbegovic of
Bosnia, Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia and Franjo Tudjman of Croatia
signed the Bosnian peace treaty in Paris. The agreement divided
Bosnia into 2 autonomous territories and granted 51% of Bosnia to
the Muslim-Croat federation and 49% to the Serbs (Republika Srpska).
Elections were scheduled and a force of 60,000 Western troops was
planned for deployment. A 3-member presidency and a national
parliament was also part of the plan. The office of High
Representative was created to oversee the implementation of the
civilian aspects of the Peace Agreement.
(SFC, 1/19/98, p.A8)(SFC, 9/22/98, p.A8)(AP,
12/14/00)(www.ohr.int/)

1995 The Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame opened in Cleveland.
(SFC,10/24/97, p.E3)

1995 American Heritage Girls
was founded in Cincinnati, Ohio, as a Christian alternative to the
Girl Scouts. By 2004 there were some 2,800 members in 22 states.
(USAT, 3/23/04, p.9D)

1995 Larry Wayne Harris was
arrested in Lancaster for possession of bubonic plague bacteria. A
search of his home found certificates identifying him as a member of
the Aryan Nations Church.
(SFC, 2/20/98, p.A9)

1995 The Buckeye Egg Farm began
operations in La Rue. A fly problem due to the chicken manure was
solved by using the Darkling beetle. The beetle took care of the
flies and infested the manure which was sold to local farmers. The
beetles then proceeded to infest the homes of the local farmers.
(WSJ, 11/3/97, p.A1)

1996 Feb 8, NFL and Cleveland
allowed Art Modell to move his NFL franchise to Baltimore but he had
to leave the Browns' name behind.
(MC, 2/8/02)

1996 Sep 1, The record for the
‘World’s Largest Chicken Dance" was broken in Canfield with 72,000
people dancing.
(WSJ, 9/21/98, p.B1)

1996 Nov 5, Pres. William
Jefferson Clinton was re-elected in the US but voters kept
Congress in Republican control. He won about 50% of the popular vote
and 375 electoral votes. Republican candidate Bob Dole got 43% and
135 electoral votes. Clinton won Ohio by 6 percentage points.
(SFC, 11/6/96, p.A1)(AP, 11/5/97)(Econ, 8/2/08,
p.31)
1996 Nov 5, Dennis Kucinich was
elected to the US Congress.
(SFC, 1/10/04, p.A2)

1996 The music ensemble eighth
blackbird was founded by students at the Oberlin Conservatory.
(WSJ, 5/10/01, p.A16)

1997 Feb 10, The city of
Cincinnati revealed plans for a new $80-million museum for its role
in the Underground Railroad during the Civil War. The museum and
freedom center were scheduled to open in 2002.
(USAT, 2/11/97, p.D1)

1997 Feb, In Wilmington 2
members of the Aryan Nations were involved in a shootout with
police, the day before the group had scheduled a rally to protest
Black History Month.
(SFC, 2/20/98, p.A9)

1997 Aug 7, Kay Halle, a
glamorous Cleveland department store heiress, died at 93 in
Washington. She had written for the Cleveland Plain Dealer and
conducted news interviews with public figures.
(SFC, 8/26/97, p.A17)

1997 Aug 12, Steel workers in
West Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania ended a 10-month strike at
Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corp. with a new contract. It was the
longest strike by a major steel company.
(SFC, 8/13/97, p.A3)

1997 Sep, In Newark the new $30
mil. Longaberger Co. headquarters building was shaped like a picnic
basket and designed by the NBBJ architecture firm of Columbus.
(WSJ, 10/15/97, p.B1)

1997 Oct 18, The Florida
Marlins beat the Cleveland Indians 7-4 in game one of the World
Series.
(AP, 10/18/98)

1997 Oct 19, The Cleveland
Indians defeated the Florida Marlins 6-1 in game two of the World
Series, evening the series at one game apiece.
(AP, 10/19/98)

1997 Oct 22, Larry Flynt sold
Hustler in a non-zoned area of Cincinnati despite a revamped city
ordinance designed to keep stores selling adult materials out of
downtown.
(www.citybeat.com/archives/1998/issue406/coverarticle1.html)

1997 Oct 25, The Cleveland
Indians avoided elimination in the World Series by defeating the
Florida Marlins, 4-1, in game six.
(AP, 10/25/98)

1997 Oct 26, The Florida
Marlins beat the Cleveland Indians in game 7 of the Baseball World
Series 3:2.
(SFC,10/27/97, p.E1)

1998 Jan 21, The FBI arrested
dozens of prison guards and police officers in the Cleveland area
following a 2-year sting operation on cocaine trafficking.
(SFC, 1/22/98, p.A7)

1998 cJan 30, In Washington the
creation of The National First Ladies’ Library was announced at the
Renwick Gallery. Physical materials will be located in Canton, Ohio,
in the childhood home of Ida Saxton McKinley, the 20th first lady.
(SFC, 2/5/98, p.A8)

1998 May 24, A Hall of Fame for
American classical music was scheduled to open in Cincinnati.
(SFEC, 3/29/98, Par p.18)

1998 Jun 28, The Cincinnati
Enquirer published an apology and agreed to pay Chiquita Brands
Int’l. $10 million to avoid suit for articles critical of the
company’s business. The articles were reportedly based on voice
mails stolen from Chiquita. Chiquita is based in Cincinnati and is
controlled by financier Carl H. Lindner Jr. Reporter Michael
Gallagher was fired and later sued by Chiquita. His 18-page article
alleged that Chiquita used life-threatening pesticides, had a
Honduran Army raze a village to close a plantation, and that
Colombian officials had been bribed to allow the shipment of drugs
on its ships.
(SFC, 6/29/98, p.A4)(SFC, 7/3/98, p.A13)

1998 Jun, Devan Duniver (5) was
stabbed to death. A 12-year-old boy was charged and later sentenced
to detention until age 21, though he pleaded innocence in New
Philadelphia.
(SFC, 3/17/99, p.A3)

1998 Jul 29, The Powerball
jackpot of 20 East Coast states reached $292 million and the winning
numbers were 8-39-43-45-49. A group of 13 machinists from Ohio, who
bought their tickets in Indiana, elected to take a $161.5 million
lump sum payout.
(SFC, 7/30/98, p.A2)(SFC, 7/31/98, p.A3)

1998 Jul 31, Bicycle production
at the Huffy plant in Celina ended 44 years of production and 650
workers lost their jobs.
(SFC, 8/6/93, p.A8)

1998 Aug 25, In Cincinnati,
Ohio, 4 boys under age 11 were charged in the sexual assault of a
7-year-old girl.
(SFC, 8/26/98, p.A3)

1998 Sep 19, At the 22nd annual
Oktoberfest in Cincinnati 25,000 kazoos were distributed in an
attempt to set a Guinness record for the "World’s Largest Kazoo
Band."
(WSJ, 9/21/98, p.B1)

1998 Oct 14, Frankie Yankovic
(83), the Polka King from Cleveland, died. He played a
Slovenian-style polka on the accordion with clarinet and saxophone
as opposed to the Polish style which uses the accordion with
trumpets and has a faster beat.
(SFC, 10/15/98, p.C6)

1998 Nov 12, Lewis Merletti,
head of the Secret Service, quit his position to coordinate security
for the Cleveland Browns football team.
(WSJ, 11/12/98, p.A1)

1999 Jan 17, In Bryan, Ohio, 3
freight trains crashed into each other and 2 crew members were
killed.
(SFC, 1/18/99, p.A5)

1999 Feb 19, Ohio inmate
Wilford Berry, "The Volunteer", became the first inmate to be
executed in Ohio since 1963.
(www.drc.state.oh.us/Public/capital.htm)

1999 Apr 9, A tornado hit the
Cincinnati area and 7 people were reported killed.
(SFC, 4/10/99, p.A1)

1999 Apr 25, In Dayton Roger
Troutman (47) died from gunshot wounds and Larry Troutman (54) was
found dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. The scene
was described as a apparent slaying-suicide. The two had formed the
1970s band Zapp and scored a 1980 hit with "More Bounce to the
Ounce." Roger Troutman recorded the 1987 hit "I Want to Be Your
Man."
(SFC, 4/26/99, p.A8)

1999 Apr 28, The Cincinnati
City Council voted 5-4 to file suit for millions in damages from
handgun manufacturers for expenses due to gun violence.
(SFC, 4/28/99, p.A3)

1999 May 9, Five skydivers and
their pilot died when their plane crashed after takeoff at Lakefield
Airport in Montezuma.
(SFC, 5/10/99, p.A5)

1999 May 19, The US Justice
Dept. moved to revoke the citizenship of John Demjanjuk (79), a
retired Cleveland autoworker, and said it had new evidence that he
was a death camp guard at Treblinka during WW II.
(SFC, 5/20/99, p.A4)

1999 Jul 25, In the Cincinnati
area 7 people were reported dead over the weekend from sweltering
heat.
(SFC, 7/26/99, p.A7)

1999 Aug 1, In North Lima a
small plane crashed after takeoff and 4 of 5 people were killed.
(SFC, 8/2/99, p.A5)

1999 Aug 24, A federal judge
halted the state's 4-year-old tuition voucher program saying that it
violated constitutional mandates for separation of church and state.
Officials scrambled to absorb 3,800 students participating in the
program. The judge later reversed the decision and allowed some
students to use vouchers, but no new participants.
(SFC, 8/25/99, p.A3)(SFC, 8/28/99, p.A3)

1999 Aug, Inventure Place in
Akron, home of the National Inventors Hall of Fame designed by
Polshek and Partners, won the American Institute of Architect's
honor award.
(SFEC, 8/8/99, p.C18)

1999 Nov 2, In Columbus Michael
Coleman (44) was elected as the first black mayor of the city.
(SFC, 11/3/99, p.A17)

1999 Nov 23, In Stone Creek fog
on I-77 caused a pileup of 20 cars that left 2 people dead and 15 to
hospitals.
(SFC, 11/24/99, p.A12)

1999 Nov, The new $125 million
Center of Science and Industry opened in Columbus. It was designed
by Arata Isozaki.
(WSJ, 11/10/99, p.B14)

1999 Dec 20, A federal judge
ruled that a school voucher program in Cleveland violates the
Constitution's separation of church and state.
(SFC, 12/21/99, p.A1)

1999 David Longaberger, head of
a basket-making empire, died. In 2001 his autobiography was
published: "Longaberger: An American Success Story."
(WSJ, 4/3/01, p.A22)

2000 Jan 24, Paavo Jarvi was
selected to succeed Jesus Lopez-Cobos as the music director of the
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.
(SFC, 1/26/00, p.B4)

2000 Apr 7, A Civil Rights
Memorial was dedicated at Miami Univ. in Oxford for the 3 young men
killed in Mississippi in 1964. James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and
Michael Schwerner had trained at the Western College for Women,
which became part of Miami Univ.
(SFC, 4/8/00, p.A10)

2000 Apr 25, The state motto,
"with God, all things are possible," was declared unconstitutional
by a federal appeals court.
(SFC, 4/26/00, p.B8)

2000 Sep 1, In Cincinnati
officer Kevin Crayon (40) died of head injuries when he fell from a
moving car. He was trying to stop Courtney Mathis (12) from driving
and shot Mathis in an apparent attempt to stop the car from hitting
some children. Mathis died 4 hours later while under surgery.
(SFC, 9/2/00, p.A2)

2000 Sep 4, In Ava, Noble
County, Richard Pangle (27), his wife Sheryl (29) and their 5
children (5-12), were found dead inside their burning trailer in
what appeared to be a murder-suicide.
(SFC, 9/5/00, p.A7)

2000 Sep, A possible tornado in
Xenia killed at least one person and inured 100 with widespread
damage to homes and businesses.
(SFC, 9/23/00, p.A22)

2000 Oct 3, In Ravenna Theresa
Andrews (23) was found buried in the dirt floor of a garage owned by
Michelle Bica (39). Andrews, missing since Sep 27, had been pregnant
and was found with her abdomen cut and baby missing. The baby was
found asleep in the suspect’s home.
(SFC, 10/4/00, p.A4)

2000 Nov 7, Derrick Seaver (18)
became the youngest resident ever elected to the state legislature.
(SFC, 11/23/01, p.D5)

2000 Nov 17, In Cincinnati at
least 6 people were arrested following protests against meetings of
corporate executives from the US and Europe for the Transatlantic
Business Dialogue.
(SFC, 11/18/00, .A3)

2001 Mar 4, Former 4-term Gov.
James A. Rhodes died at age 91.
(SFC, 3/5/01, p.A24)

2001 Mar 21, Ronnie Davis, San
Francisco Housing Chief, was indicted in Ohio for stealing hundreds
of thousands of dollars during his tenure at the Cleveland housing
authority.
(SFC, 3/22/01, p.A1)

2001 Apr 7, In Cincinnati
Timothy Thomas (19) was shot to death by Officer Stephen Roach who
tried to arrest him on 14 warrants. Roach was later charged
with negligent homicide and obstructing official business. Roach was
acquitted Sep 26.
(SFC, 4/11/01, p.A10)(SFC, 5/8/01, p.A3)(SFC,
9/27/01, p.A11)

2001 Apr 10, A 2nd day of riots
took place in Cincinnati due to the death 4 days earlier of Timothy
Thomas (19), who was shot to death by police who tried to arrest him
on 14 warrants.
(SFC, 4/11/01, p.A10)

2001 Apr 12, In Cincinnati
Mayor Charles Luken imposed a citywide curfew and other measures to
prevent a 4th night of riots following the fatal shooting of an
unarmed black man by police.
(SFC, 4/13/01, p.A1)

2001 Jul 29, A tractor engine
exploded at a county fair and 4 people were killed in Medina.
(SFC, 7/30/01, p.A3)

2001 Sep 26, In Cincinnati
Stephen Roach, a white police officer, was acquitted of all charges
in the April shooting of Timothy Thomas (19). The acquittal sparked
more unrest.
(SFC, 9/27/01, p.A11)(WSJ, 9/28/01, p.A1)

2001 Oct 16, Nancy Fitzgivens
(53), social worker, was stabbed to death in Columbus while
interviewing a couple whose 7 children she had helped take away.
(SFC, 10/18/01, p.C2)

2001 Nov, Ohio banned the use
of the electric chair for criminal executions.
(SFC, 2/20/02, p.A7)

2002 Jan 11, Frank Gruttadauria
(44), Lehman Brothers stockbroker, was last seen in Cleveland. It
was later reported that $300 million were missing from the accounts
of some 2 dozen Lehman clients. Gruttadauria turned himself in Feb
9.
(WSJ, 2/8/02, p.A1)(SSFC, 2/10/02, p.A15)

2002 Feb 21, A US federal judge
stripped John Demjanjuk (81), retired Cleveland autoworker, of his
citizenship a 2nd time for concealing wartime activities at
immigration.
(SFC, 2/22/02, p.A3)

2002 Mar 16, In Ohio Brittanie
Cecil (13) was struck by a flying hockey puck during a game between
the hometown Columbus Blue Jackets and the Calgary Flames; she died
two days later.
(AP, 3/15/07)

2002 Mar 18, In Ohio Brittanie
Cecil (13) died 2 days after being hit by a hockey puck while
watching an NHL game between the Columbus Blue Jackets and Calgary
Flames. It was apparently the first such fan fatality in NHL
history.
(SFC, 3/20/02, p.A2)(AP, 3/18/07)

2002 Apr 3, Cincinnati agreed
to restrictions on the use of force and announced plans to establish
an independent agency to investigate police brutality complaints.
(SFC, 4/4/02, p.A4)

2002 Apr 10, In Ohio a state
appeals court declared a ban on concealed weapons to be
unconstitutional. 5 other states, all in the Midwest, carried
similar laws banning concealed weapons.
(SFC, 4/11/02, p.A7)

2002 May 28, Mildred Wirt
Benson (96), newspaperwoman and creator of the "Nancy Drew"
children's mystery stories (1930), died in Toledo, Ohio. She wrote
under the direction of Edward Stratemeyer and used the pen name
Carolyn Keene.
(WSJ, 5/31/02, p.A13)(AP,
5/28/03)(http://tinyurl.com/e39rt)

2002 Jun 27, The US Supreme
Court ruled to allow random drug searches in public schools on
students who engage in extracurricular activities. The court also
upheld a Cleveland school voucher program in Zelman vs.
Simmons-Harris.
(SFC, 6/28/02, p.A1)(WSJ, 6/10/03, p.D5)

2002 Jul 24, The US House voted
420-1 to oust Rep. James Traficant, an Ohio Democrat. On July
30 Traficant was sentenced to 8 years in prison for bribery and
racketeering.
(SFC, 7/25/02, p.A1)(SFC, 7/31/02, p.A4)(SFC,
9/2/09, p.A6)

2002 Jul 30, Expelled from
Congress a week earlier, an unrepentant Ohio Democrat James A.
Traficant Jr. was sentenced to eight years behind bars for
corruption and made it clear he intended to run for re-election from
his prison cell — and expected to win. He didn't. Traficant was
released from prison in Rochester, Minnesota, on Sep 2, 2009.
(AP, 7/30/03)(SFC, 9/3/09, p.A6)

2002 Nov 10, A series of
pulverizing storms barreled through more than a half-dozen US states
including Tennessee, Ohio, Alabama, Mississippi and Pennsylvania,
killing at least 36 people. More than 100 were injured.
(SFC, 11/12/02, p.A4)(AP, 11/10/07)

2002 Ohio launched its Third
Frontier program, a visionary initiative within the Department of
Development to firmly establish the state as an innovation leader.
With a 10-year initial life and a bipartisan commitment of $1.6
billion, the Ohio Third Frontier expands the state's high-tech
research capabilities that are designed to accelerate the pace of
commercialization within Ohio.
(http://thirdfrontier.com/)

2003 Jan 3, Ohio State beat
Miami in the Fiesta Bowl 31-24 in double overtime to become the
national college football champion.
(SFC, 1/4/03, p.C1)

2003 Apr 8, In Ohio a Dassault
Aviation Falcon 20 crashed short of the runway at Toledo Express
Airport and 3 people were killed.
(SFC, 4/9/03, p.A3)

2003 Apr 13, In Columbus, Ohio,
a fire at a student-rented house left 5 people dead.
(SFC, 4/14/03, p.A1)

2003 Apr 21, In Cleveland
Amanda Berry (16) went missing. In 2013 she and two other kidnapped
women were found alive in a residential area just south of downtown.
3 brothers were arrested.
(AP, 5/7/13)

2003 May 9, In Cleveland, Ohio,
Biswanath Halder (62), a camouflage-clad gunman, fired hundreds of
rounds as he roamed the halls of the Case Western Univ. Weatherhead
School of management, killing Norman Wallace (30), of Youngstown and
wounding others. He was arrested after a 7-hour standoff. Halder was
later convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
(SFC, 5/10/03, p.A3)(SSFC, 5/11/03, p.A1)(AP,
5/9/08)

2003 Jul 4, Manuel Gehring (44)
shot and killed his 2 children, Philip (11) and Sarah (14),
following a dispute with his wife in Concord, NH. He was later
arrested in Gilroy, Ca. He confessed to police that he shot and
killed his 2 children in New Hampshire and buried them in the
Midwest. In 2005 authorities found the bodies of the 2 children
buried off I-80 in Ohio. Gehring committed suicide in his jail cell
on February 19, 2004 at the Merrimack County Jail in Boscawen, New
Hampshire.
(SFC, 8/1/03, p.A3)(SSFC, 12/4/05,
p.A22)(http://tinyurl.com/62dfka)

2003 Jul 13, In Ohio Benjamin
White (17) grabbed Casey Hilmer (13) as she was jogging in suburban
Indian Hills, dragged her to a wooded area and stabbed her in the
face and neck. In 2005 jurors decided that his parents must bear
most of the responsibility, as they awarded $10 million to the
injured victim and her family.
(AP, 8/21/05)

2003 cAug 19, An Ohio
auto-parts worker shot a woman to death and wounded 2 other
employees in Andover.
(WSJ, 8/20/03, p.A1)

2003 Nov 20, The Archdiocese of
Cincinnati agreed to pay $10,000 in fines after pleading no contest
to failing to inform authorities about sex-abuse allegations.
(WSJ, 11/21/03, p.A1)

2003 Nov 25, Gail Knisley (62)
was shot and killed while riding in a car on a highway in Columbus,
Ohio. It was the only fatality in a series of shootings that
terrified area drivers. A suspect, Charles A. McCoy Jr., was
arrested March 17, 2004. McCoy later pleaded guilty to manslaughter
and 10 other charges, and was sentenced to 27 years in prison.
(AP, 11/25/04)(AP, 11/25/08)

2003 Nov 28, In Ohio
authorities said for the 1st time they had linked the Nov. 25 death
of Gail Knisley to at least one of 10 other reports of shots fired
at vehicles along I-270.
(AP, 11/29/03)

2003 Nov 30, In Cincinnati,
Ohio, a 350-pound black man died after being clubbed by police. An
autopsy showed that Nathaniel Jones (41) had an enlarged heart and
that his blood contained cocaine and PCP.
(SFC, 12/2/03, p.A3)

2003 Dec 2, Authorities in Ohio
announced that they had linked 12 shootings along a five-mile
stretch of interstate around Columbus, including one that killed a
woman and another that broke a window at an elementary school. A
suspect was arrested the following March. Charles A. McCoy Jr.,
later pleaded guilty to manslaughter and 10 other charges, and was
sentenced to 27 years in prison.
(AP, 12/2/04)(AP, 12/2/08)

2003 Dec 18, An Ohio school
district suspended classes after bullet holes were found in 2 of its
buses.
(WSJ, 12/19/03, p.A1)

2004 Jan 9, An Ohio woman who'd
claimed to have lost a lottery ticket worth $162 million was charged
with filing a false police report. Elecia Battle was later convicted
of the misdemeanor and put on one year's probation.
(AP, 1/9/05)

2004 Jan 21, Ohio lawmakers
gave final approval to a measure banning gay marriage and
prohibiting state employees from getting benefits for domestic
partners. Gov. Bob Taft said he would sign it pending a legal
review.
(SFC, 1/22/04, p.A1)

2004 Jan 26, Cleveland City
Hall began a domestic partner's registry, the 1st in the nation
created by voters.
(SFC, 1/27/04, p.A3)

2004 Jun 14, John Ashcroft
unsealed an indictment against Nuradin Abdi, a Somali immigrant, on
charges of plotting with al Qaeda operatives to blow up a shopping
mall in Columbus, Ohio. Abdi was arrested on immigration charges on
Nov 28, 2003. Abdi was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2007 after
pleading guilty in an alleged plot to blow up an Ohio shopping mall.
(SFC, 6/15/04, p.A3)(AP, 2/27/09)

2004 Aug 18, Two campers were
found slain at Fish Head Beach in Sonoma Ct., Ca. Lindsay Cutshall
(23) of Fresno, Ohio, and Jason Allen (26) of Holland, Mich., were
found with gunshots to the head. They had planned a wedding next
month.
(SFC, 8/21/04,
p.A1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenner,_California_Double-Murder_of_2004)

2004 Aug 21, In Ohio health
officials said cases of gastrointestinal illness had risen to 510
from people in the Put-in-Bay resort area.
(SSFC, 8/22/04, p.A3)

2004 Sep 2, Ohio began
checkpoints along its border with Michigan to prevent transport of
firewood from Michigan to stop the spread of emerald ash borer, a
tree-killing beetle.
(SFC, 9/3/04, p.A7)

2004 Nov 2, In US presidential
elections a federal appeals court cleared the way for political
parties to send in people to challenge voters' eligibility at Ohio
polling places. US Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens allowed
Republicans to challenge voter qualifications at the polls in Ohio.
Pres. Bush won the elections spending an estimated $5.20 for each of
his votes.
(AP, 11/2/04)(Econ, 9/27/08, p.50)

2004 Dec 6, Ohio certified
President Bush's victory over John Kerry, even as the Kerry campaign
and third-party candidates prepared to demand a statewide recount.
Bush won Ohio by 118,600 votes.
(AP, 12/06/05)(Econ, 8/2/08, p.31)

2004 Dec 8, In Columbus, Ohio,
Nathan Gale (25) charged on stage and opened fire on a heavy metal
band at a crowded bar, killing top heavy metal guitarist "Dimebag"
Darrell Abbott and 3 others and wounding two before being killed by
police.
(AP, 12/9/04)(SFC, 12/10/04, p.A3)

2005 Jan 26, In Ohio an
employee at the Toledo North Assembly Jeep plant shot 3 co-workers,
killing one, before taking his own life.
(SFC, 1/27/05, p.A3)

2005 Feb 24, In Ohio Rosemarie
Essa was killed in a car crash after losing consciousness. Her
husband Dr. Yazeed Essa vanished in 2006 and was arrested months
later in Cyprus. In 2009 he returned to Cleveland to face murder
charges. In 2010 Dr. Essa (41) was convicted of lacing her calcium
supplement with cyanide so that he could be with his mistress.
(SSFC, 1/11/09,
p.A4)(www.amw.com/fugitives/case.cfm?id=37583)(SFC, 3/6/10, p.A5)

2005 Apr 24, An unusual spring
storm dumped nearly 2 feet of wet snow on parts of the Midwest and
Appalachians, covering newly sprouting plants, snapping power lines
and taking a bite out of baseball. 80,000 in the Cleveland area lost
their electricity.
(AP, 4/25/05)(WSJ, 4/25/05, p.A1)

2005 May 21, In east Cleveland,
Ohio, a fire broke out during a sleepover at a crowded house,
killing Medeia Carter (33), 4 of her children and 4 other children.
In 2010 a judge ruled that suspect Antun Lewis (27) is mentally
disabled and can’t face execution. On Feb 14, 2011, Lewis was
convicted for the arson deaths.
(AP, 5/22/05)(SFC, 12/28/10, p.A6)(SFC, 2/15/11,
p.A10)

2005 May 27, A lawyer for
Thomas Noe, Ohio coin dealer and Republican Party man, reported that
as much as $13 million of the state’s $50 million investment in
Noe’s rare coin fund could not be accounted for [see Oct 27].
(SFC, 5/28/05, p.A4)

2005 May 29, In Bellefontaine,
Ohio, an 18-year-old who was about to graduate from high school is
believed to have fatally shot his grandparents, mother and two
family friends before killing himself.
(AP, 5/30/05)

2005 Jun 23, Ohio Republican
Gov. Bob Taft was reported to be mired in a scandal that started
with a questionable state investment in rare coins. It had the
governor and other Republicans all the way to Pres. Bush scrambling
to give back potentially tainted campaign contributions.
(AP, 6/23/05)

2005 Aug 9, Charles McCoy Jr.
pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and 10 other charges in a
series of Ohio highway shootings and was sentenced to 27 years in
prison.
(AP, 8/9/06)

2005 Aug 10, Tennessee prison
inmate George Hyatte and his wife, Jennifer, surrendered in
Columbus, Ohio, a day after she'd allegedly ambushed two prison
guards at a courthouse, killing one of them, to help her husband
escape. Jennifer Hyatte was later sentenced to life in prison by
agreeing to testify against her husband. George Hyatte, already
facing 41 years of incarceration, awaited trial in the murder of
Wayne Morgan and escaping jail.
(AP,
8/10/06)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston_courthouse_shooting)

2005 Aug 18, Ohio Gov. Bob Taft
pleaded no contest to charges that he broke state ethics law by
failing to report golf outings and other gifts. A judge found him
guilty and fined him $4,000.
(AP, 8/18/05)

2005 Sep 1, It was reported
that 13% (64 of 490) of the female students at Timken Senior High
School in, Canton, Ohio are pregnant. One girl, eight months
pregnant, said she believes the school's abstinence-based sex
education program isn't enough.
(AP,
9/1/05)(http://cantonrep.com/index.php?ID=238435)

2005 Sep 19, In Ohio Katelind
Caudill (13) was shot and killed by Melvin Keeling (43) because she
told authorities her best friend was being molested. Keeling fled
the Cincinnati area. He was also sought for the killing of 2
convenience store clerks, Lisa Kendall (29) and Kendora Furr (38) at
the Family Express store in Remington, Indiana. On Sep 28 more than
a dozen investigators on the Keeling task force combed the woods in
Gary, Indiana and found the fugitive's wallet, ID and other personal
items a few blocks from where Keeling abandoned his van. Tracking
dogs also followed Keeling's scent from the wooded area to nearby
train tracks. He was an apparent suicide.
(SFC, 9/22/05,
p.A6)(www.amw.com/fugitives/brief.cfm?id=34686)

2005 Oct 15, In Toledo, Ohio, a
riot broke out when protesters confronted members of the National
Socialist Movement who had gathered at a city park. More than 100
people were arrested and one officer was seriously injured.
(AP, 10/16/05)

2005 Oct 27, Tom Noe, a coin
dealer already embroiled in an Ohio state government scandal, was
charged with funneling $45,400 to other people to contribute to
President Bush's re-election campaign in an attempt to skirt a
$2,000 limit on individual contributions. In Sep, 2006, Noe was
sentenced to 2 years and 3 months in prison and fined $136,200 for
the illegal contributions. He still faced trial for embezzlement. In
Nov, 2006, Noe was convicted of theft, corrupt activity, money
laundering, forgery and tampering with records and sentenced to 18
years in prison.
(AP, 10/28/05)(SFC, 9/13/06, p.A4)(AP, 11/20/06)

2005 Nov 8, In Ohio Cincinnati
voters elected a black mayor for the first time. State Sen. Mark
Mallory defeated Councilman David Pepper, both Democrats, in a
nonpartisan mayoral runoff.
(AP, 11/9/05)

2005 Nov 25, US federal agents
in Cleveland arrested Imam Damra, the spiritual leader of Ohio’s
biggest mosque, as they began the process of deporting him for his
ties to terrorist groups.
(WSJ, 11/26/05, p.A1)

2005 Nov 29, Ohio carried out
the nation's 999th execution since 1977, putting to death a man who
strangled his mother-in-law while high on cocaine and later killed
his 5-year-old stepdaughter to cover up the crime.
(AP, 11/29/05)

2005 Dec 1, A dog and its owner
found the bodies of Sarah and Philip Gehring, two children who'd
been fatally shot by their father and buried in rural Ohio.
(AP, 12/1/06)

2005 Dec 28, In Cleveland an
immigration judge renewed the order that John Demjanjuk (85), a
retired auto worker accused of being a Nazi concentration camp guard
at Sobibor in Poland (1943), be deported to his native Ukraine.
Demjanjuk appealed the deportation order. In 2009 Demjanjuk was set
to be deported to stand murder charges in Munich, Germany, but won a
last minute stay on his 89th birthday. The stay was revoked a few
days later.
(SFC, 12/29/05, p.A3)(WSJ, 12/29/05, p.A1)(SFC,
4/4/09, p.A6)(SFC, 4/7/09, p.A6)

2005 The Fugitive Safe
Surrender program began in Cleveland, Ohio. It allowed fugitives
accused of nonviolent crimes to safely surrender at churches. The
program went nationwide until 2011, when funding for it was dropped
by the US Marshals Service.
(SFC, 3/7/11, p.A6)(http://tinyurl.com/4cllt7m)

2006 Jan 15, A spokesman said
Rep Bob Ney, an Ohio Republican implicated in a lobbying corruption
investigation, will step aside temporarily as chairman of the US
House Administration Committee.
(AP, 1/16/06)

2006 Jan 20, FirstEnergy agreed
to a record $28 million fine as workers at its Ohio Davis-Besse
nuclear power station were accused of providing false statements on
cleaning and inspections at the reactor vessel head.
(WSJ, 1/21/06, p.A6)

2006 Feb 21, US federal courts
in Ohio charged 3 men, originally from Jordan and Lebanon, with
conspiring to kill US forces in Iraq.
(SFC, 2/22/06, p.A3)

2006 May 2, Joseph Clark was
executed at a state prison in Lucasville, Ohio. After Clark was
finally pronounced dead, 86 minutes after the process began, an
autopsy showed 19 needle puncture wounds from the process. In 2007
Irma Clark filed suit in the Cincinnati, Ohio, district court,
alleging her son was exposed to "excessive suffering" violating the
US constitution.
(AFP, 7/3/07)

2006 May 8, A former top aide
to Ohio Republican Rep. Bob Ney pleaded guilty and agreed to
cooperate in the corruption and influence-peddling investigation
involving lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
(Reuters, 5/8/06)

2006 May 11, A priest was
convicted in Toledo, Ohio, of murdering a nun; the Rev. Gerald
Robinson was immediately sentenced to 15 years to life in prison for
the 1980 death of Sister Margaret Ann Pahl.
(AP, 5/11/07)

2006 Jun 18, American Delegates
at the Episcopal General Convention in Columbus, Ohio, elected
Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori (52) as their next leader. She
would become the first woman to lead any member of the global
Anglican Communion.
(SFC, 6/19/06, p.A2)

2006 Aug 9, In Ohio Osama Sabhi
Abulhassan (20) and Ali Houssaiky (20), both of Dearborn, Mich.,
were charged with money laundering in support of terrorism after
authorities said they found airplane passenger lists and information
on airport security checkpoints in their car.
(AP, 8/9/06)

2006 Sep, In Kenya farmers in
the Machakos region built small dams and water retention ponds on
the Ikiwe River with some $70,000 in aid from people in Archbold,
Ohio. The Archbold Mennonite Church project was part of Foods
Resource Bank, a Michigan-based hunger fighting organization that
connects urban churches with rural farm groups.
(WSJ, 4/23/07, p.A1)

2006 Oct 13, Ohio
Representative Bob Ney pleaded guilty in a federal court to
conspiracy and making false statements as part of the Jack Abramoff
lobbying scandal.
(AP, 10/13/06)

2006 Oct 24, Ohio executed
Jeffrey Lundgren (56), a religious cult leader, for the 1989 murder
of a family of five followers who were taken one at a time to a
barn, bound and shot to death. The youngest was a girl just 7 years
old. Lundgren argued at his trial in 1990 that he was prophet of God
and therefore not deserving of the death penalty.
(AP, 10/24/06)

2006 Nov 8, US Democrats took
over Republican–held mansions in 6 states to boast 28 of the
nation’s 50 governors. In Massachusetts Deval Patrick succeeded Mit
Romney; in Ohio Ted Strickland won over Kenneth Blackwell by 24
percent; Bill Ritter won in Colorado.
(Econ, 11/11/06, p.39)(Econ, 8/2/08, p.31)

2006 Dec 17, In Ohio a plane
crashed in a field killing Paul and Lillian Martin of Austin, Texas,
and their two children.
(AP, 12/18/06)

2006 Dec 27, Ohio’s state
Supreme Court publicly reprimanded Gov. Bob Taft for his ethics
violations in office, a black mark that will stay on his permanent
record as an attorney.
(AP, 12/27/06)

2006 The US Ohio national guard
began helping in a training program for the Serbian army.
(Econ, 10/24/09, p.64)

2007 Jan 19, Former Ohio Rep.
Bob Ney was sentenced to 2½ years in federal prison for
trading political favors for gifts and campaign donations from
lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
(AP, 1/19/07)

2007 Feb 7, Blowing snow and
intense cold was blamed for two more deaths, a total of 13
nationwide since the cold settled in, and kept schools closed for a
second and in some cases a third day across much of Ohio and West
Virginia.
(AP, 2/7/07)

2007 Mar 2, A charter bus
carrying a college baseball team from Ohio’s Mennonite-affiliated
Bluffton University plunged off a highway ramp in Georgia and
slammed into the pavement below, killing six people, injuring 29 and
scattering sports equipment across the road. A 7th player died from
his injuries on Mar 9.
(AP, 3/2/07)(AP, 3/9/07)

2007 Mar 14, Chiquita Brands
Int’l., a Cincinnati-based banana company, agreed to pay a $25
million fine after admitting that it paid a Colombian terrorist
group (AUC) for protection in a volatile farming region. Chiquita
sold its Colombian banana operations in June, 2004.
(SFC, 3/15/07, p.A5)

2007 May 14, Charles Y. Lazarus
(b.1914), the last of four generations to run the iconic Federated
Dept. store in Columbus, Ohio, died in Columbus.
(WSJ, 5/19/07,
p.A6)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Lazarus)

2007 May 24, Ohio death row
inmate Christopher Newton was executed by injection; it took him 16
minutes to die, more than twice the usual amount of time, once
chemicals began flowing into his veins, which the execution team had
had trouble locating.
(AP, 5/24/08)

2007 Jun 23, In Canton, Ohio,
authorities found the body of Jessie Davis (26), who had disappeared
a week earlier. Davis was pregnant and due to deliver on July 3.
Police arrested Bobby Cutts Jr. (30), Davis’ boyfriend and the
father of Davis’ two-year-old son. Myisha Ferrel, a former classmate
Bobby Cutts, was arrested the next day in connection with the
murder. In 2008 Cutts was convicted of aggravated murder and
sentenced to 57 years to life in prison.
(SSFC, 6/24/07, p.A6)(SFC, 6/25/07, p.A5)(SFC,
2/16/08, p.A4)(AP, 6/23/08)

2007 Jul 20, In Ohio an
ambulance heading to a hospital was broadsided by a car in Crane
Township and 5 people were killed including 3 EMT technicians and 2
patients.
(SFC, 7/21/07, p.A3)

2007 Aug 23, Ohio’s Gov. Ted
Strickland said more than 1,000 people were flooded out of their
homes after heavy rain that swamped communities across the Midwest
sent Ohio's rivers spilling over their banks.
(AP, 8/23/07)

2007 Sep 5, In Virginia US Rep.
Paul Gillmor (68), a Republican from Ohio, was found dead in his
apartment in Arlington.
(SFC, 9/6/07, p.A7)

2007 Oct 1, Teradata
Corporation, a hardware and software vendor specializing in data
warehousing and analytic applications, was spun off from NCR Corp.
As of 2010 the former division of NCR is the largest company in
Dayton, Ohio, with headquarters in Miamisburg, Ohio.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teradata)

2007 Oct 9, American Electric
Power (AEP) of Columbus, Ohio, accused of spreading smog and acid
rain across a dozen states, agreed to pay at least $4.6 billion to
cut chemical emissions in what the government called the nation's
largest environmental settlement.
(AP, 10/9/07)

2007 Oct 10, In Cleveland,
Ohio, Asa H. Coon (14), armed with two revolvers, opened fire at the
SuccessTech Academy alternative school, wounding two students and
two teachers before fatally shooting himself. He had a history of
mental problems and was known for cursing at teachers and bickering
with students. Coon, who was white, stood out in the predominantly
black school for dressing in a Goth style, wearing a black trench
coat, black boots, a dog collar and chains.
(AP, 10/11/07)(SFC, 10/11/07, p.A6)

2007 Oct 20, In Ohio Daniel
Petric (16) shot his parents, killing his mother and wounding his
father, after they took away the Halo 3 video game from him.
In 2009 a judge ruled Petric guilty of murder.
(AP,
1/13/09)(http://pysih.com/2007/10/21/daniel-petric/)

2007 Oct 21,
Paul Byrd, pitcher for the Cleveland Indians, acknowledged
that he had used human growth hormone from August 2002 to January
2005 due to a pituitary gland issue. An investigation was pending as
Major League Baseball and the Indians said they had not been aware
of Byrd’s use of the muscle building substance.
(SFC, 10/22/07, p.A1)

2007 Nov 13, CC Sabathia won
the AL Cy Young Award to become the first Cleveland pitcher in 35
years to earn the honor.
(AP, 11/13/08)

2007 Dec 1, Roger Lee Dillon
(22) and his girlfriend, Nicole N. Boyd (24), were arrested in West
Virginia for the disappearance of $7 million in cash and checks from
an Ohio armored car company. The disappearance of the money was
discovered Nov 26.
(AP, 12/1/07)

2007 Dec 30, In Ohio a drunken
driver went about four miles down a highway in the wrong direction
before his pickup truck slammed into a minivan, killing a woman and
four children and injuring three others. All 8 had been visiting
family in Michigan and were returning to Maryland.
(AP, 12/31/07)

2008 Jan 24, Dennis Kucinich
(b.1946), US Congressmen for Ohio, announced that he is dropping his
long-shot bid for president.
(WSJ, 1/25/08, p.A1)

2008 Feb 7, In Portsmouth,
Ohio, William Michael Layne (56) stabbed his estranged wife in front
of her 5th grade class and girl friend in an alley behind her home
and then shot himself dead in a standoff with police. Both women
were in critical condition.
(AP, 2/9/08)

2008 Mar 4, John McCain
clinched the Republican nomination. Hillary Clinton won primaries in
Texas, Ohio and Rhode Island, halting Barack Obama's winning streak.
Obama won in Vermont. Obama came away with a large share of
delegates, too, in counting that continued.
(AP, 3/5/08)

2008 Mar 8, Over 20 inches of
snow in Columbus, Ohio, eclipsed the February 1910 record of 15.3
inches. At least 7 deaths were linked to the Midwest snowstorm.
(SFC, 3/10/08, p.A6)

2008 Mar 10, Highway and
utility crews cleared major highways in time for morning commuters
following the weekend snowstorm that buried parts of Ohio in as much
as 20 inches of snow. The storm battered a wide band from the lower
Mississippi Valley to New England.
(AP, 3/10/08)

2008 Apr 5, Skybus Airlines, a
low-cost carrier based in Columbus, Ohio, shut down and filed for
bankruptcy protection, becoming the latest of the nation's airlines
to fall because of rising fuel costs and a slowing economy.
(AP, 4/5/08)(SFC, 4/8/08, p.D3)

2008 May 14, Marc Dann (46),
Ohio’s attorney general, resigned under threat of impeachment due to
an extramarital affair with an employee.
(SFC, 5/15/08, p.A7)

2008 Jun 3, In Ohio Christopher
Paul (44), pleaded guilty to planning terrorist attacks. He was
accused of joining al-Qaida in the early 1990s and helping teach
Muslim extremists how to bomb US and european targets.
(http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iVlFdiHopuka4A5g4J-eVGRq-BzgD912SEC80)

2008 Jun 25, In Cleveland,
Ohio, 3 teenagers beat a homeless man to death as passers-by slowed
to watch the attack, some of which was caught on videotape. Anthony
Waters (42) suffered a lacerated spleen and broken ribs during the
attack and died at a hospital.
(AP, 6/27/08)

2008 Aug 12, It was reported
that Akron inventor Charlie Grispin, chief technical officer of
PolyFlow Corp., had developed a new process to recycle plastic and
that a demonstration plant in Akron showed how the process broke all
manner of plastics into their base chemicals.
(http://tinyurl.com/6xfw5s)(www.polyflowcorp.com/)

2008 Aug 20, Stephanie Tubbs
Jones (b.1949), Ohio’s first black congresswoman, died in Cleveland
following a brain hemorrhage. She was first elected in 1998.
(SFC, 8/21/08, p.A3)

2008 Aug 26, An Ohio jury
convicted Andrew Siemaszko, a former nuclear plant engineer, of
hiding information in 2001 about reactor corrosion at the
Davis-Besse plant along Lake Erie. Siemaszko’s attorney’s said the
plant’s owner set him up as a scapegoat because he spoke out about
safety concerns.
(WSJ, 8/27/08, p.A1)

2008 Oct 3, The Great Lakes
Governors (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio,
Pennsylvania, Wisconsin) applauded President George W. Bush for
signing a joint resolution of Congress providing consent to the
Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact.
It barred new diversions beyond the Great Lakes Basin.
(www.cglg.org/projects/water/CompactConsent.asp)(Econ, 5/22/10,
p.36)

2008 Oct 24, PNC Financial
Services Group Inc agreed to purchase ailing Ohio-based National
City Corp in a government-supported $5.6 billion deal that will
create the No. 5 U.S. bank by deposits.
(Reuters, 10/25/08)

2008 Nov 1, A gunman fatally
shot Cincinnati minister Rev. Donald Fairbanks Sr. and wounded a
church deacon just after the two men arrived at a northern Kentucky
church to attend a funeral. Frederick L. Davis, of Covington,
quickly surrendered to police and was charged with murder, first
degree assault, criminal mischief and violating an emergency
protection order.
(AP, 11/2/08)

2008 Dec 31, SF ended the year
with 98 homicides. In Milwaukee, Wisc., the total number of
homicides dropped 32%, from 105 in 2007 to 71 in 2008, the lowest
number since 1985. Detroit had 344 slayings, a 13% drop from the 396
in 2007; Philadelphia's 332 killings were a 15% drop from the 392 in
2007; and the 234 homicides in Baltimore were 17% less than the 392
the year before. Cleveland recorded 102 homicides in 2008, down from
a 13-year high of 134 in 2007. Homicides in New York rose 5.2%, to
522 from 496 the year before. Slayings in Los Angeles were down to
376 in 2008 compared to 400 the prior year. Preliminary data in
Chicago showed 508 homicides were reported in 2008, the first time
the city had more than 500 murders since 2003 and about 15% more
than the 442 homicides reported in 2007. Washington, D.C., ended
2008 with 186 homicides, up from 181 in 2007.
(SFC, 1/2/09, p.1)(AP, 1/3/09)

2009 Jan 10, A winter storm
left large swaths of the Midwest and Northeast covered in snow and
freezing rain. 10 inches of snow forced some 100 cancellations at
Chicago’s O’Hare Int’l. Airport. At least 8 inches fell on lower
Michigan and Ohio.
(SSFC, 1/11/09, p.A14)

2009 Jan 12, Minnesota
officials said lab tests had confirmed salmonella bacteria in a five
pound container of King Nut brand peanut butter. King Nut of Solon,
Ohio, had recalled the product on January 10. At least 6 people had
been killed and over 470 sickened nationwide in 43 states.
(WSJ, 1/13/09, p.A2)(SFC, 1/20/09, p.A12)

2009 Jan 28, President Barack
Obama signed requests from Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear and Arkansas
Gov. Mike Beebe for federal emergency declarations as crews worked
around the clock to resurrect power lines downed by thick ice in
both states. Since the storm began building on Jan 26, the weather
has been blamed for at least six deaths in Texas, four in Arkansas,
three in Virginia, six in Missouri, two in Oklahoma, and one each in
Indiana and Ohio.
(AP, 1/29/09)

2009 Feb 6, In Ohio Gertrude
"Trudy" Steuernagel, a Kent State University professor, died a week
after she was severely injured in a Jan 29 beating by Sky Walker
(18), her autistic son.
(AP, 2/25/09)

2009 Mar 5, In Ohio 5 people
were found killed in one of Cleveland’s most horrific
shootings in years. Davon Crawford (33), a newlywed, was suspected
of killing his wife, his sister-in-law and three young children.
Crawford shot himself in the head the next day as police confronted
in a home where he was hiding.
(AP, 3/6/09)(SFC, 3/7/09, p.A6)

2009 Mar 11, German prosecutors
said they have charged retired Ohio auto worker John Demjanjuk (88)
with more than 29,000 counts of accessory to murder for his time as
a guard at the Nazis' Sobibor death camp, and will seek his
extradition from the US.
(AP, 3/11/09)

2009 Apr 10, A US immigration
board rejected suspected Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk's
appeal of an extradition order, paving the way for deportation to
Germany to face charges he committed atrocities.
(AFP, 4/10/09)

2009 May 12, John Demjanjuk,
retired Ohio autoworker, arrived at a German prison after 3 decades
of fighting in court. He was deported from the US to face
allegations of being an accessory to the murder of 29,000 Jews and
others as a guard at the Nazis' Sobibor death camp.
(AP, 5/12/09)

2009 Oct 13, In Ohio a woman
being driven around in a rented limousine pulled up at a Burlington
coat store and announced she'd won the lottery and would pay for
everyone's purchases. Linda Brown (44) ended up causing a riot when
customers realized it was a hoax. When the limousine driver realized
he wasn't going to be paid the $900 Brown owed him for the day's
rental, he turned her in to police.
(AP, 10/15/09)

2009 Oct 21, In Toledo, Ohio,
Mohammad Zaki Amawi (29) was sentenced to 20 years in jail for
plotting to recruit and train terrorists to kill US soldiers in
Iraq. Marwan Othman El-Hindi (46) was sentenced to 12 years. The two
men and a third defendant had been found guilty in 2008. The third
man has yet to be sentenced.
(SFC, 10/22/09, p.A4)(http://tinyurl.com/ygnbfpt)

2009 Oct 29, In Cleveland,
Ohio, police found the remains of 6 bodies at the home of Anthony
Sowell (50) as they tried to arrest him on charges of felonious
assault and rape. Sowell, a convicted rapist, was arrested on Oct
31. 5 more bodies were soon found at Sowell’s home. The women had
begun disappearing in 2007. On July 22, 2011, Sowell was convicted
of killing 11 women.
(SSFC, 11/1/09, p.A20)(SFC, 11/5/09, p.A10)(SFC,
7/23/11, p.A4)

2009 Nov 13, Ohio became the
first US state to adopt a procedure for lethal injections that uses
just one drug, thiopental sodium.
(SFC, 11/14/09, p.A4)

2009 Nov 23, Ohio police seized
about 35 pipe bombs, an assortment of firearms, hundreds of rounds
of ammunition at the Cuyahoga Falls apartment of Mark Campano (56),
a former doctor, following two loud explosions. Citing a history of
drug dependency, the Medical Board of Ohio had removed Campano's
license in 2006.
(AP, 11/26/09)(SFC, 11/28/09, p.A5)

2009 Dec 5, In Ohio a barn fire
killed two workers and 43 horses at a harness racing track in
Lebanon.
(AP, 12/7/09)

2009 Dec 8, Ohio executed
Kenneth Biros (51) by performing the nation's first lethal injection
using a single drug, sodium thiopental, a supposedly less painful
method than previous executions that required 3 drugs. Biros killed
Tami Engstrom (22) in 1991 after offering her a ride home from a
bar. He then scattered her body parts in Ohio and Pennsylvania.
(AP, 12/8/09)(SFC, 12/9/09, p.A10)

2009 Dec 17, Cincinnati Bengals
receiver Chris Henry (26) died in North Carolina, a day after
falling out of the back of a pickup truck during what police said
was a domestic dispute with his fiancee.
(AP, 12/17/09)

2010 Jan 1, In the Rose Bowl at
Pasadena Terrelle Pryor passed for a career-high 266 yards and two
touchdowns, rushed for 72 more and threw a 17-yard scoring pass to
DeVier Posey with 7:02 to play, leading the No. 8 Buckeyes to a
26-17 victory over No. 7 Oregon.
(AP, 1/2/10)

2010 Mar 9, An Ohio State Univ.
custodian, Nathaniel Brown (51), killed a supervisor and wounded
another and then killed himself. Brown had been told that he was
being fired.
(SFC, 3/10/10, p.A4)

2010 Mar 28, US federal agents
in Ohio arrested 2 members Hutaree, a Christian militia group
“preparing for end time battles to keep the testimony of Jesus
Christ alive." A 3rd person was arrested the next day in Indiana as
part of an investigation led by the FBI in Michigan.
(SFC, 3/29/10, p.A6)

2010 May 4, Ohio voters passed
ballot proposal Issue 1. It allowed the state to issue $700 million
of bonds to finance research and development for the so-called
“Third Frontier" program, which was launched in 2002
(Econ, 5/1/10, p.34)(http://tinyurl.com/25tu3te)

2010 May 5, Raymond Towler (52)
was freed from prison in Ohio after DNA evidence showed that he did
not rape an 11-year-old girl in 1981. Towler had spent almost 30
years in prison.
(SFC, 5/6/10, p.A4)(http://tinyurl.com/2usdrhr)

2010 May 6, An E.coli outbreak,
possibly linked to tainted lettuce, sickened at least 19 people in
Ohio, New York and Michigan prompting a recall throughout much of
the US. Freshway Food in Sidney, Ohio, said it was recalling lettuce
sold in 23 states and Washington DC.
(SFC, 5/7/10, p.A4)

2010 May 23, Ohio executed
Michael Beuke, a hitchhiker who killed a motorist in 1983. Beuke
recited prayers for 17 minutes before he was executed. On Nov 18 new
state prison rules were announced under which the final words of
condemned prisoners could be edited or shortened.
(SFC, 11/19/10, p.A7)

2010 Jun 3, In Ohio Hor Akl and
his wife Amera Akl were taken into custody in Toledo for conspiring
to provide thousands of dollars to Hezbollah.
(SFC, 6/4/10, p.A6)

2010 Jun 6, In Ohio a tornado
killed 5 people. The tornado that hit Wood and Ottawa counties had
estimated winds of up to 165 mph and was by far the most severe of
four confirmed tornadoes to strike northern Ohio over the weekend.
(AP, 6/7/10)(AP, 6/8/10)

2010 Jul 8, Cleveland
Basketball star LeBron James said to a national TV audience. "I'm
going to take my talents to South Beach and join the Miami Heat."
Once James shared his secret, fans poured out of the same downtown
bars and restaurants that have thrived during these tough economic
times. A few set fire to his No. 23 jersey while others threw rocks
at the 10-story-tall billboard featuring James with his head tossed
back and arms pointing skyward.
(AP, 7/9/10)

2010 Jul 19, Despite being
rebuffed twice by the US Supreme Court, five states (Michigan,
Wisconsin, Ohio, Minnesota and Pennsylvania) filed suit with a lower
court demanding tougher federal and municipal action to prevent
Asian carp from overrunning the Great Lakes and decimating their
fishing industry.
(AP, 7/19/10)

2010 Aug 10, In Ohio Roderick
Davie (38) was executed by lethal injection for the murder of 2
co-workers at a pet supply company in 1991.
(SFC, 8/11/10, p.A4)

2010 Nov 10, In Howard, Ohio,
Tina Herrmann (32) and her 2 children went missing along with friend
Stephanie Sprang (41). Sarah Maynard (13) was found alive on Nov 14
in the Mount Vernon basement of the home of Mathew Hoffman (30), an
unemployed tree trimmer. The bodies of Tina, Sprang and Kody Maynard
were found on Nov 18 in a hollow tree central Ohio. On Jan 6, 2011,
Hoffman admitted killing the 3 people and raping a 13-year-old girl.
He was sentenced to life in prison.
(SSFC, 11/14/10, p.A14)(SFC, 11/19/10,
p.A11)(SFC, 1/7/11, p.A6)

2011 Jan 1, In Ohio sheriff’s
deputy Suzanne Hopper (40) was shot dead as she tried to photograph
a footprint at a trailer park in Enon. Michael Ferryman (57), the
suspected shooter, died in a gunbattle with police.
(SSFC, 1/2/11, p.A10)(SFC, 1/3/11, p.A4)

2011 Jan 12, In Ohio Rev.
Raleigh Trammell (73), former national chairman of the Southern
Christian leadership Conference, was indicted on 51 charges that
included grand theft, forgery and tampering with government records.
(SFC, 1/13/11, p.A6)

2011 Jan 26, In Ohio police
witnessed large quantities of marijuana being transferred from a
South Columbus warehouse to a van, which they intercepted along with
two smugglers, Hector Martinez (36) of Columbus and Luis Miranda
(24) of Phoenix, Ariz. They were arrested and charged with
possession of marijuana. About 2,055 pounds of marijuana were
collected.
(Reuters, 1/29/11)

2011 Jan 28, Authorities in
Columbus, Ohio, seized about 800 more pounds of marijuana from
Mexico during a 2nd raid in 3 days. The total street value from the
2 raids was estimated at $3.5 million, as well as almost $1 million
in cash.
(Reuters, 1/29/11)

2011 Feb 6, In Ohio a shooting
at a fraternity party near Youngstown State Univ. killed one student
and left 11 others injured. On Aug 31, 2012, Columbus Jones (23) was
sentenced to 92 years to life in prison for the shootings that
killed Jamail Johnson (25).
(SFC, 2/7/11, p.A4)(SFC, 9/1/12, p.A4)
2011 Feb 6, In Ohio some 15
tanker cars, each carrying over 30,000 gallons of ethanol, exploded
and burned after half the cars of a 62-car train derailed in
Arcadia.
(SFC, 2/7/11, p.A4)

2011 Feb 17, In Ohio Frank
Spisak (59), who shot three people to death nearly 30 years ago on
the campus of Cleveland State University in a shooting rampage that
targeted African Americans, was executed. His racially motivated
shooting spree took place from February 1982 to August 1982. During
his 1983 trial, Spisak grew a Hitler-style mustache, carried a copy
of Hitler's book "Mein Kampf" and gave the Nazi salute to the jury.
(www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20032917-504083.html)(SFC, 2/18/11,
p.A5)

2011 Mar 8, In Cleveland, Ohio,
the prosecutor's office charged Joseph Harwell with six counts of
aggravated murder, two counts of rape and six counts of kidnapping
in the deaths of Mary Thomas (27) in 1989 and Tondilear Harge (33)
in 1996. Harwell had already pleaded guilty to fatally strangling a
woman near Columbus in 1997 and was currently serving 15 years to
life at a prison in Mansfield.
(AP, 3/9/11)

2011 Mar 30, The Ohio
Legislature pass a bill severely limiting union rights for 350,000
public workers. Gov. John Kasich was expected to sign it this week.
(SFC, 3/31/11, p.A8)

2011 Apr 12, Ohio executed a
two-time murderer using pentobarbital as a stand-alone execution
drug. Clarence Carter (49) was the 2nd inmate in the country
executed with the surgical sedative.
(SFC, 4/13/11, p.A5)

2011 Apr 16, In Oak Harbor,
Ohio, deputies found the bodies of Alan Atwater (31), his wife Dawn
(30), and their 3 children, ages 1-4, all dead with gunshot wounds.
Atwater had just called 911 to say he had killed his wife and 3
children and was getting ready to kill himself.
(SFC, 4/16/11, p.A10)

2011 Apr 30, In Ohio Randle Lee
Roberts II (27) died in a shootout with police about a half hour
after a girl found the bodies of her relatives in a home near West
Union. The dead included George Stephens (68), the grandfather of
Roberts' wife. The others were Sonja Stephens (46), Kendra Stephens
(34) and her 11-year-old daughter, Harley.
(AP, 5/1/11)(SSFC, 5/1/11, p.A10)

2011 May 4, In Costa Rica Ohio
teenager Caity Jones died in the Pacific Ocean when she was pulled
by an undertow current. Two other students, on a school mission
trip, were swept out with her. The body of James Smith was recovered
the next day. The body of Kai Lamar was recovered on May 6.
(AP, 5/5/11)(AP, 5/6/11)

2011 Jun 30, Ohio Republican
Governor John Kasich signed into law a bill that allows gun owners
in the state to carry concealed weapons into bars and other places
where alcohol is served. The law also prohibits gun owners from
consuming alcohol or being under the influence of alcohol or drugs
when they carry their weapons into bars.
(AP, 6/30/11)

2011 Aug 6, In Ohio an
18-year-old attending summer classes at the University of Cincinnati
was struck by a campus officer's stun gun and died of cardiac
arrest.
(AP, 8/6/11)

2011 Aug 7, In Ohio a family
argument outside Akron ended in the shooting deaths of eight people
in two places, including an 11-year-old. Two more people were
wounded.
(AP, 8/8/11)

2011 Aug 13, Ctirad Masin (81),
a controversial anti-communist fighter in the former nation of
Czechoslovakia, died in Cleveland, Ohio. He had eluded a massive
East Bloc manhunt during the Cold War.
(AP, 8/13/11)

2011 Sep 1, Ohio officials said
the Lake Erie Correctional Institution in Ashtabula county has been
sold to Corrections Corporation of America for $72.7 million. This
was the first US prison to be sold to a private company.
(SFC, 9/2/11, p.A8)

2011 Nov 8, Ohioans decisively
rejected the state's collective-bargaining law night, repealing
Republican Governor John Kasich's signature legislation in a
referendum that could reverberate into 2012. SB5 would have prevent
public-employee unions from collective bargaining, prohibited
strikes and forced teachers, police offers and firefighters to
contribute a set amount toward their health benefits and pensions.
(AP, 11/8/11)

2011 Nov 23, US federal
authorities in Ohio charged Sam Mullet and six others with hate
crimes in haircutting attacks against other Amish.
(SFC, 11/24/11, p.A14)

2011 Nov 25, In Ohio two bodies
were found believed to be related to a Craigslist ad that according
to police lured victims to a lethal robbery scheme that already left
one person dead. Two people related to the killings were custody. A
3rd body was found in the same area. On Oct 30, 2012, Ohio teenager
Brogan Rafferty was convicted of aggravated murder for his role in
the plot. Prosecutors said Brogan shot and killed 3 victims after
robbing them.
(SFC, 11/26/11, p.A6)(SSFC, 12/4/11,
p.A14) (SFC, 10/31/12, p.A4)

2011 Dec 24, In Ohio a
single-engine plane crashed 50 miles southeast of Columbus killing 2
women on board. The pilot died of his injuries a day later.
(SFC, 12/26/11, p.A7)

2012 Jan 3, An expert hired by
the state of Ohio said a 4.0 magnitude earthquake in Ohio on New
Year's Eve did not occur naturally and may have been caused by
high-pressure liquid injection related to oil and gas exploration
and production.
(Reuters, 1/3/12)

2012 Feb 27, In Ohio a shooting
at Chardon High School outside Cleveland put the school on lockdown.
The alleged shooter, identified as T.J. Lane (17), killed one
student and wounded three others. Two soon died from their wounds
bringing the death toll to 3.
(AP, 2/27/12)(AP, 2/28/12)

2012 Mar 1, In Ohio an adoptive
father was charged with raping three boys in his care and compelling
prostitution by hiring the 10-year-old out for sex. He and two other
men remained in jail on rape charges.
(AP, 3/1/12)

2012 Mar 2, A string of violent
storms scratched away small towns in the South and Midwest as an
early season tornado outbreak left 39 people in 5 states, including
14 in Indiana, 19 in Kentucky, 3 in Ohio and one each in Alabama and
Georgia.
(AP, 3/3/12)(http://tinyurl.com/6u9f2bp)(SFC,
3/5/12, p.A9)

2012 Mar 6, Ten US states voted
in the Super Tuesday Republican primaries. Republican presidential
frontrunner Mitt Romney edged out conservative rival Rick Santorum
in the vital battleground of Ohio and won five of the night's other
contests. Romney also notched victories in Alaska, Idaho, Vermont,
Virginia and his home-state of Massachusetts, while Santorum won
North Dakota, Oklahoma and Tennessee, and Newt Gingrich carried his
home state of Georgia.
(SFC, 3/7/12, p.A6)(Econ, 3/10/12, p.18)
2012 Mar 6, Dennis Kucinich, a
colorful liberal in Congress who tried to have former President
George W. Bush impeached over the Iraq war, was defeated in Ohio by
a fellow Democratic incumbent in the first of 11 primary races this
year pitting members of the US House against each other.
(Reuters, 3/7/12)

2012 Mar 9, Ohio state
regulators said a dozen earthquakes in northeastern Ohio were almost
certainly induced by injection of gas-drilling wastewater into the
earth and announced tougher regulations for drillers.
(SFC, 3/10/12, p.A5)

2012 Mar 14, In Ohio John
Mallett stabbed 4 people in a random assault in and outside a trade
school in Columbus. In 2013 he was found not guilty by reason of
insanity.
(SFC, 6/11/13, p.A4)(http://tinyurl.com/kcwszoq)

2012 Mar 16, Cincinnati, Ohio,
was ranked No. 1 in a list of American cities with the most bedbugs.
It retained the rating in 2013.
(http://tinyurl.com/ka8hyrl)(SFC, 8/21/13, p.A8)

2012 Mar 30, In Ohio Jessica
Rae Sacco (21) was found dead in her apartment in Urbana. She had
been stabbed, suffocated and dismembered in a bathtub before some of
her remains were taken across the state line to Kentucky. 5 people
were soon arrested including her on-and-off boyfriend. Matthew
Puccio (25) was among five people charged in connection with the
death of Sacco. Puccio said he met her through Facebook while
looking for new friends and that he met two of his alleged
accomplices at a library just three days before the killing.
(SFC, 4/2/12, p.A5)(AP, 4/8/12)

2012 Apr 30, In Ohio 5 people,
claiming to be anarchists, were arrested in Cleveland for trying to
blow up a four-lane bridge across the Cuyahoga Valley National Park.
The explosive devices were inoperable and controlled by an
undercover FBI agent. On Sep 5 three of the men admitted their roles
in the bomb scheme in a move to avoid life in prison. A 4th had
pleaded guilty earlier. On Oct 7, 2013, Joshua Stafford (25), the
last of the five defendants, was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
(http://tinyurl.com/7p5kn2k)(SFC, 9/6/12,
p.A5)(SFC, 10/8/12, p.A5)

2012 Jun 3, In Ohio a car crash
killed 3 students including the drive who was to graduate later in
the day. A 4th student about to graduate, died soon after of
injuries suffered in the crash. A fifth student was injured.
(AP, 6/4/12)

2012 Jun 30, Millions across
the mid-Atlantic region sweltered in the aftermath of violent storms
that pummeled the eastern US with high winds and downed trees,
killing 24 people and leaving 3 million without power during a heat
wave. At least six of the dead were killed in Virginia. 2 young
cousins in New Jersey were killed when a tree fell on their tent
while camping. 2 were killed in Maryland, one in Ohio, one in
Kentucky and one in Washington.
(AP, 6/30/12)(SFC, 7/3/12, p.A8)(Econ, 7/7/12,
p.32)

2012 Jul 16, In Lebanon, Ohio,
investigators said a high school student was at the center of a
marijuana distribution ring that was taking in as much as $20,000 a
month. A year-long investigation culminated in the arrest of the
teen and 7 adults.
(SFC, 7/17/12, p.A8)

2012 Aug 4, In Ohio John Wise
(67) shot and killed his wife of 45 years in her hospital bed.
Barbara Wise (65) had suffered three cerebral aneurysms that left
her unable to speak. Mercy killing was not a legal defense option in
Ohio. On Nov 8, 2013, John Wise was convicted of murder. On Dec 13
Wise was sentenced to six years in prison.
(SFC, 11/4/13, p.A5)(SFC, 11/9/13, p.A10)(SFC,
12/14/13, p.A6)

2012 Aug 31, The Ohio state
Dept. of Health said a woman’s death this week was related to H3N2v,
a new strain of swine flu. 12 new cases were reported in the US
during the week.
(SFC, 9/1/12, p.A4)

2012 Sep 20, In Cleveland,
Ohio, Samuel Mullet and 15 Amish followers were convicted of federal
conspiracy and hate crimes for orchestrating a series of beard and
hair-cutting attacks in 2011.
(SFC, 9/21/12, p.A7)

2012 Nov 29, In Cleveland,
Ohio, Timothy Russell (43) and Melissa Williams (30) were killed
following a chase that ended with 13 officers firing 137 rounds. The
chase began with a pop, perhaps a gunshot or backfire from a car
speeding past police headquarters. Only officer Michael Brelo was
later charged criminally because prosecutors said he waited until
the car had stopped and the pair no longer a threat to fire 15 shots
through its windshield while standing on the hood of the car. On May
23, 2105, Brelo was acquitted.
(http://tinyurl.com/btk8tbn)(Econ, 12/13/14,
p.28)(AP, 5/23/15)

2012 Dec 19, Norwegian energy
company Statoil ASA said it has bought 70,000 acres of land rich in
gas and liquid gas in West Virginia and Ohio.
(AP, 12/19/12)

2013 Jan 1, Ten states kicked
off the new year with a minimum wage rise of between 10 and 35
cents. The rises went into effect in Arizona, Colorado, Florida,
Missouri, Montana, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and
Washington.
(Reuters, 1/1/13)

2013 Jan 26, Pennsylvania
police said Stephen Baker (62), a Franciscan brother, was found dead
of a self-inflicted knife wound at the St. Bernardine monastery.
Baker was named in recent settlements involving 11 men who alleged
that he sexually abused them 3 decades ago in Ohio. More people soon
came forward with abuse claims in Pennsylvania, where Baker had
taught and coached.
(SSFC, 1/27/13, p.A6)(SFC, 2/25/13, p.A4)

2013 Feb 8, in Ohio Samuel
Mullet Sr. (67), the ringleader of hair- and beard-cutting attacks
on fellow members of his faith, was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Family members convicted of carrying out his orders got sentences
ranging from one to seven years.
(AP, 2/7/13)

2013 Mar 6, Ohio executed
Frederick Treesh for the fatal shooting of a bookstore security
guard in 1994. He was pronounced dead after a single powerful dose
of pentobarbital.
(SFC, 3/7/13, p.A5)

2013 Mar 10, In Middlefield,
Ohio, James Gilkerson (42) exited his parked car and then fired 37
AK-47 shots at the officers and their patrol car. Officers Erin
Thomas and Brandon Savage returned fire, killing Gilkerson.
(www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu8koHqEEPo)(http://tinyurl.com/cztx3kd)
2013 Mar 10, In Warren, Ohio, a
stolen SUV with 8 teenagers flipped over into a pond, killing six of
them.
(AP, 3/11/13)

2013 Mar 17, In Ohio 2 members
of the Steubenville high school football team were found guilty of
raping a drunken 16-year-old girl after a drinking party last August
11. On Nov 25 a superintendent and two coaches were charged with
lying or failure to report possible child abuse.
(SFC, 3/18/13, p.A5)(SFC, 11/26/13, p.A6)
2013 Mar 17, It was reported
that Lake Erie is sick and that a dead zone covers a large portion
of the lake bottom due to a poisonous blue-green algae called
Microcystis enhanced by high levels of phosphorous from fertilizer
runoff. The problem was compounded by the zebra mussel, a foreign
invader discovered in 1988, which excretes phosphorous providing
Microcystis a ready-made meal.
(SSFC, 3/17/13, p.A15)

2013 Mar 19, In Ohio T.J. Lane
(18) cursed and gestured obscenely as he was given three life
sentences for shooting to death three students at the Chardon
High School cafeteria in Feb, 2012.
(AP, 3/20/13)

2013 May 6, In Cleveland 3
women, Amanda Berry (27), Gina DeJesus (23) and Michelle Knight
(32), who went missing separately about a decade ago, when they were
in their teens or early 20s, were found alive in a residential area
just south of downtown. 3 brothers, Ariel Castro (52), Pedro (54)
and Onil Castro (50) were arrested. On May 8 Ariel Castro was
charged with kidnapping and rape of the 3 women. His two borthers
were not charged. On July 26 Ariel Castro pleaded guilty to 937
counts in a deal to avoid the death penalty.
(AP, 5/7/13)(AP, 5/8/13)(SFC, 5/8/13, p.A10)(AP,
5/9/13)(SFC, 7/27/13, p.A6)

2013 Jun 22, In Ohio a plane
carrying wing walker Jane Wicker crashed at The Vectren Air Show
near Dayton. Wicker and the pilot were killed.
(SSFC, 6/23/13, p.A7)

2013 Jul 19, Ohio police
arrested Michael Madison (35), a registered sex offender, after
finding a female body in a garage in East Cleveland. Two more bodies
were found the next day. Authorities believed the victims were
killed in the last 6-10 days.
(SFC, 7/22/13, p.A4)

2013 Jul 22, In Ohio a federal
judge granted marriage rights to a same-sex couple residing in the
state as one of the partners neared death. Ohio at this time did not
recognize such unions. This highlighted a new front for gay rights
activists seeking to expand rights for couples living in states that
are unfriendly to same-sex marriage.
(CSM, 7/24/13)(SFC, 7/24/13, p.A8)

2013 Aug 1, In Ohio Ariel
Castro (53), the man convicted of holding three women captive and
raping them for a decade, was sentenced to life without parole plus
1,000 years.
(SFC, 8/2/13, p.A6)

2013 Sep 3, In Ohio Ariel
Castro, sentenced to life in prison for the kidnapping, rape and
beatings of three Cleveland women he held captive in his house for a
decade, was found hanged in his prison cell. Authorities later said
his death may have been due to autoerotic asphyxiation. Consultants
later said he committed suicide by hanging.
(Reuters, 9/4/13)(SFC, 10/11/12, p.A4)(SFC,
12/4/13, p.A7)

2013 Oct 18, In Ohio a police
cruiser crashed into a car at an intersection in Upper Arlington
killing 6 members of a family of Iraqi immigrants, whose car had
stopped in the middle of the intersection.
(SFC, 10/18/12, p.A6)

2013 Oct 24, In Ohio Ali Salim
(44), a former doctor, pleaded guilty to two counts of involuntary
manslaughter in the 2012 deaths of Deanna Ballman (23) and her
unborn child. He had injected her with heroin.
(SFC, 10/25/13, p.A6)

2013 Nov 14, In Ohio a jury
convicted Bobby Thompson (67) on all 23 counts in a $100 million,
cross-country Navy veterans charity fraud case. Authorities said he
is Harvard trained attorney John Donald Cody, who disappeared in
2010 and was arrested last year in Portland, Ore.
(SFC, 11/15/13, p.A7)

2013 Nov 15, In Ohio six horses
were killed on rural roads after over three dozen escaped from a
farm near Covington. Three people injured in the road accidents.
(SFC, 11/16/13, p.A6)

2013 Dec 15, In Ohio Jerrod
Metsker (24) was arrested for the murder of Reann Murphy (9). The
girl was last seen playing a day earlier at a mobile home park where
she lived in Smithville. Her body was found about 5 hours after she
was reported missing.
(SFC, 12/16/13, p.A6)

2013 Dec 16, In Ohio Bobby
Thompson (67), aka John Donald Cody, was sentenced to 28 years in
prison for masterminding a $100 million Navy veteran’s charity fraud
across the US.
(SFC, 12/17/13, p.A5)

2014 Jan 16, In Ohio Dennis
McGuire (53) was executed by a new combination of lethal drugs for
the 1989 rape and murder of Joy Stewart (22), who was pregnant. The
execution took nearly 25 minutes from injection to death and left
him gasping for air in the final minutes.
(SFC, 1/8/14,
p.A5)(http://tinyurl.com/kdp2x6z)(SFC, 1/17/14, p.A8)

2014 Jan 26, In Ohio an
apartment building fire killed two firefighters in Toledo. On Feb 3
building owner Ray Abou-Arab (61) was arraigned on charges of
aggravated murder and arson.
(SFC, 2/4/14, p.A4)

2014 Jul 22, In Ohio Jordie
Callahan (28) was convicted of enslaving a mentally disabled woman
for two years along with other charges. Callahan was sentenced to 30
years in prison. Jessica Hunt (33), his convicted girlfriend, was
sentenced on July 24 to 32 years in federal prison.
(SFC, 7/23/14, p.A7)(SFC, 7/25/14, p.A7)

2014 Aug 2, Toledo, Ohio,
issued the warning just after midnight after tests at a treatment
plant showed two sample readings for microsystin above the standard
for consumption. The city said not to boil the water because that
would only increase the toxin's concentration. The mayor also warned
that children should not shower or bathe in the water and that it
shouldn't be given to pets. The water supply was fouled by toxins
possibly from algae on Lake Erie. On Aug 4 city officials declared
the water safe.
(AP, 8/3/14)(SFC, 8/5/14, p.A12)

2014 Aug 4, In Ohio John
Crawford III (22) was fatally shot by two white policemen inside a
Wal-Mart store in the Dayton suburb of Beavercreek. Police responded
after a caller said a man was waving a gun; they say Crawford
refused orders to put down an air rifle. A grand jury concluded that
the shooting was justified. On Dec 16 Crawford’s family filed a
federal lawsuit charging negligence and violation of civil rights.
(AP, 8/30/14)(SFC, 12/17/14,
p.A10)(http://tinyurl.com/ksvw2z3)

2014 Aug 18, In Ohio an
estimated 5-8 thousand gallons of fuel oil spilled into the Ohio
River from the Duke Energy power plant in New Richmond. A 15-mile
section of the river was closed for cleanup.
(SFC, 8/20/14, p.A8)

2014 Sep 2, In Ohio Donald
Hoffman (41) was taken into custody as a person of interest in the
deaths of 4 men in Bucyrus. He was being held on a probation
violation.
(Reuters, 9/4/14)

2014 Sep 11, In Ohio T.J. Lane
(19), the killer of three students in 2012, escaped from the
Allen-Oakwood prison in Lima with two other inmates. They had spent
months building a ladder with materials stored in a maintenance
area. All three were caught within hours of escaping.
(SFC, 9/12/14, p.A12)(SFC, 11/15/14, p.A6)

2014 Sep 25, In Ohio two
off-duty FBI employees were killed in a collission between a barge
and their pleasure boat on the Ohio River near Cincinnati.
(SFC, 9/27/14, p.A6)

2014 Sep 27, James Traficant
(b.1941), former Ohio politican, died in Youngstown. He was expelled
from the US Congress in 2002 following conviction on charges of
racketeering and corruption.
(SSFC, 9/28/14, p.C11)

2014 Nov 21, In Ohio Ricky
Jackson (59), imprisoned for 39 years for a crime he did not commit,
was freed. He had been jailed since 1975 on a murder conviction
where the prosecution’s case was based on the testimony of a
13-year-old witness, who recanted his story in 2011.
(http://tinyurl.com/orfkuoq)(SFC, 11/26/14, p.A6)
2014 Nov 21, In Ohio a pregnant
woman (41) and 3 other people were killed outside her Cleveland
home. Sherita Johnson’s unborn child also died.
(SSFC, 11/23/14, p.A12)

2014 Nov 22, In Ohio a police
officer shot Tamir Rice (12) after the boy pulled a fake gun from
his waistband at a Cleveland playground. Rice died of his wounds the
next day. In June, 2015, affidavits were filed seeking charges
against officers Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback.
(SFC, 11/24/14, p.A6)(SFC, 6/12/15, p.A7)

2014 Ohio Gov. John Kasich
signed a first-of-its-kind law that requires new crimes to specify a
threshold level of intent, or be declared void.
(Econ, 1/24/15, p.24)

2015 Jan 14, Ohio police
arrested Christopher Lee Cornell (20) of Cincinnati outside a gun
shop after he bought two semi-automatic rifles and some 600 rounds
of ammunition. He was soon charged with plotting a jihadist attack
on Washington, DC, with pipe bombs and shooting government officials
and employees.
(SFC, 1/16/15, p.A7)(SFC, 1/17/15, p.A8)

2015 Jan 19, In Ohio a
construction worker was killed and a tractor-trailer driver injured
when an I-75 overpass undergoing demolition collapsed in Cincinnati.
(AP, 1/20/15)

2015 Jan 21, In Ohio Doyle
Chumney (88) and his wife Lillian were reported missing in
Strasburg. Their bodies were found the next day in a badly burned
car. Jeffrey Stewart (21) a suspect in the slaying was arrested on
Jan 31. Suspect Robert Clark (29) was arrested on Feb 5, along with
two companions, in Arizona. They were suspected of armed robberies
in three states that followed the Ohio murders.
(SFC, 2/6/15, p.A14)

2015 Feb 7, Workers at
refineries in Indiana and Ohio went on strike against two BP plants
in an extension of strikes that began Feb 1.
(SSFC, 2/8/15, p.A9)

2015 Feb 21, Ohio arrested
Abdirahman Sheik Mohamud (23) for violating state law. By providing
support to persons engaged in terrorism in the Middle East. Mohamud
had trained with a terrorist group in Syria. On April 16 a federal
indictment charged him with planning to carry out attacks in the US.
(SFC, 4/17/15, p.A7)

2015 Apr 23, Ohio-based Jeni’s
Splendid Ice Creams said that it has recalled its frozen products
due to listeria found in a Whole Foods store in Lincoln, Nebraska.
(SFC, 4/24/15, p.A9)

2015 May 23, In Ohio 71 people
were arrested, as multiple demonstrators broke away from the
peaceful protests and in some cases assaulted bystanders following
the acquittal of officer Michael Brelo in the Nov 29, 2012, killing
of black couple Timothy Russell and Melissa Williams.
(AP, 5/24/15)

2015 May 26, The US Justice
Dept. and Cleveland announced that the city’s police department will
be overhauled under the supervison of an independent monitor.
(SFC, 5/27/15, p.A9)